For our brain, animate and inanimate objects belong to different categories and any information about them is stored and processed by different networks. A study shows that there is also another ...

Design by Meghana Tummala. Buy this photo. The amount of creativity that goes into telling a meaningful story with little to no dialogue in less than ten minutes is what fascinates me most about ...

Young children with autism appear to be delayed in their ability to categorize objects and, in particular, to distinguish between living and nonliving things, according to a breakthrough study by ...

Typically, robots are built to perform a single task. To make them more adaptable, researchers from Yale University have developed a kind of “robotic skin” that transforms ordinary objects into ...

There’s something about making inanimate objects animate that strikes writers’ and movie producers’ fancies. I say this because I’ve read some books and watched a few movies with that particular theme ...

Tio is a British-made technology intended to "animate the world around you". Its Creator and Inventor kits enable children to transform everyday objects and materials - from drink bottles to cereal ...