The sheen of satin, the subtle glints of twill, the translucence of sheer silk: Fabric has long been difficult to render ...

Bengaluru couple cuts short Sri Lanka honeymoon, returns home and dies by suicide: What happened? Terror attacks kill 1,278 security personnel in Pakistan, deadliest ...

The simulation hypothesis—the idea that our universe might be an artificial construct running on some advanced alien computer—has long captured the public imagination. Yet most arguments about it rest ...

Thomas Anderson – otherwise known as Neo – is walking up a flight of stairs when he sees a black cat shake itself and walk past a doorway. Then the moment seems to replay before his eyes. Just a touch ...

As the vibrantly patterned kente travels out of Africa, a new designation aims to protect its ties to Ghana, where the cloth originated. By Yola Mzizi Perhaps you’ve seen the kente cloth worn as a ...

New research from UBC Okanagan mathematically demonstrates that the universe cannot be simulated. Using Gödel’s incompleteness theorem, scientists found that reality requires “non-algorithmic ...

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If such a simulation were possible, the simulated universe could itself give rise to life, which in turn might create its own simulation. This recursive possibility makes it seem highly unlikely that ...

Abstract: Differentiable Simulations have recently proven useful for various robotic manipulation tasks, including cloth manipulation. In robotic cloth simulation, it is crucial to maintain ...

Abstract: Existing planners commonly rely on cell-based environment representation approaches, which oversimplify the geometry and face the challenges of low spatial resolution and high maintenance ...

There’s an old saying (paraphrasing a quote attributed to Hoare): “I don’t know what language scientists will use in the future, but I know it will be called Fortran.” The truth is, there is a ton of ...