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Time-dependent driving has become a powerful tool for creating novel nonequilibrium phases such as discrete time crystals and ...

For counsel advising clients in this space, the essential task is to help decision-makers see beyond moral vocabulary to ...

Google DeepMind is teaming up with Boston Dynamics to give its humanoid robots the intelligence required to navigate unfamiliar environments and identify and manipulate objects—precisely the kinds of ...

Abstract: Impedance control is one of the fundamental control approaches for contact-rich robotic tasks. However, to apply the impedance control, the robot dynamics needs to be completely known, which ...

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Dec. 23 (UPI) --The federal government is suing Washington, D.C., to ease its gun-ownership laws, which are the strictest in the nation. The U.S. Department of Justice filed the suit Monday in federal ...

There is a trend in the U.S. towards expanding the definition of domestic violence to address “coercive control,” including non-physical forms of abuse that undermine a person’s autonomy. Coercive ...

Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota praised Australia for its strict gun control laws Sunday, even though those measures failed to prevent a deadly terrorist attack. At least two gunmen opened ...

Last week, Illinois became the 12th state to enact legislation that allows terminally ill adults to end their lives with medication prescribed by a physician. On Friday, Gov. JB Pritzker signed “Deb’s ...

Mass killings in the United States dropped to their lowest level in two decades in 2025, even as Congress failed to enact any new federal gun control laws. Seventeen incidents met the threshold for ...

Vietnam’s parliament passed amendments to the press law that tighten restrictions over information gathering and sharing, potentially putting more pressure on journalists and their sources. The ...