Posed by robotics researcher Hans Moravec in 1988, Moravec's Paradox states that tasks that are simple for humans are actually very difficult for machines to replicate, and vice versa. Robotics has ...

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Wendy Smith, professor of management in the University of Delaware’s Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics, and Marianne Lewis, dean and professor of management in the University of ...

Parrondo’s Paradox epitomises the counterintuitive phenomenon in which combining two individual losing strategies can yield a winning outcome. This concept, originating from game theory, has ...

Identical twins will be separated when one heads to space, as NASA conducts tests to see the impact of space travel on the human body, in an experiment reminscient of Einstein’s “twin paradox” theory ...

A new study out of the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne posits a very interesting idea of human consciousness: Rather than experiencing the world continuously, humans must observe discrete ...