For years, researchers have puzzled over how the ancient people of Rapa Nui did the seemingly impossible and moved their ...

Researchers confirmed that Rapa Nui’s moai statues could “walk” upright using a rocking motion, aided by rope and just a few ...

For generations, the massive moai of Easter Island, called Rapa Nui by the locals, have stood in quiet testimony to one of ...

Easter Island’s moai statues weren’t dragged - they walked. Physics and experiments uncover how ancient islanders made stone ...

For decades, the popular theory was bleak: the islanders, obsessed with their statues, supposedly deforested their island to ...

The "walking moai hypothesis" could end a long-time debate over how ancient engineers moved these iconic statues around ...

Their findings line up perfectly with Rapa Nui oral traditions, which have long claimed the statues literally walked from the ...

A research team has confirmed via 3D modeling and field experiments that the ancient people of Rapa Nui "walked" the iconic ...

In synthetic and structural biology, advances in artificial intelligence have led to an explosion of designing new proteins ...

Physics-based ML framework designs IDPs—biomolecules without fixed structures that underlie key functions and diseases such as Parkinson’s.

This project, Stable Part Diffusion 4D (SP4D), is a collaboration between Stability AI and UIUC, capable of generating temporally and spatially consistent multi-view RGB and kinematic part sequences ...