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[ October 29, 2026 ] End of COVID-era SNAP emergency food assistance linked to increased child maltreatment rates Phys.org-Social Sciences
[ October 28, 2026 ] Optimistic climate futures for local communities in the UK imagined in a new report Phys.org-Environment
[ October 28, 2026 ] How the Indian Ocean is linked to Europe’s early-winter rain and storms Phys.org-Environment
[ October 28, 2026 ] The phantom lighthouse: New research explains one of Australia’s strangest illusions Phys.org-Social Sciences
[ October 28, 2026 ] Schools increasingly affected by poor air quality as wildfire smoke becomes more common Phys.org-Environment

Robots approaching from behind are perceived as moving faster, experiments reveal

October 1, 2026 TechXplore.com

A research team from the Vision and Action Laboratory, Visual Perception and Cognition Laboratory and Cognitive Neurotechnology Unit in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Toyohashi University of Technology, led by associate professor […]

Can a machine or AI agent be surprised? Helping autonomous systems respond to the unexpected

October 1, 2026 TechXplore.com

Let’s say you ask ChatGPT a question that stumps it, or a Waymo vehicle encounters something unusual in the road, or an autonomous factory faces an unexpected disruption. Most people would recognize that something unexpected […]