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Since the 17th century, when Isaac Newton and Christiaan Huygens first debated the nature of light, scientists have been puzzling over whether light is best viewed as a wave or a particle—or perhaps, ...

Tiny quadcopter drones, or micro air vehicles (MAVs), have notoriously short battery lives. So, if they can "perch" somewhere instead of hovering in mid-air, more power to them. A new gripper ...

However, Lattman’s description could also easily apply to the activities of his company today, which has produced large-scale mechanical objects along with its watches since it was resurrected under ...

Editor's Note: This article was originally published at ScienceNordic. Even after an acclimatisation period of more than 100 years, quantum mechanical phenomena still conflicts with our intuition of ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In our AI-powered age of Alexa and ChatGPT, the idea of a mechanical automaton may seem out of step with the ...

Over the past decade, scientists have made tremendous progress in generating quantum phenomena in mechanical systems. What seemed impossible only fifteen years ago has now become a reality, as ...