The premise is immediately engaging, but the show’s staying power comes from how it uses fantasy as a framework rather than a ...

Ethical AI dilemma of how far AI robots should be devised to appear or act like humans, per the uncanny valley precepts. Sometimes there are slightly oddish things that catch your attention and get ...

On this special episode of Uncanny Valley, we unpack Elon Musk's desire for a government shutdown that could become permanent. Plus: An update on measles misinformation in the US. WIRED Senior Editor ...

CGI has revolutionized film, art, and design over the past 35 years. Here’s what the next 35 might look like. The concept of the Uncanny Valley was later adapted to computer graphics to describe the ...

Today's roboticists swear by Masahiro Mori's "uncanny valley" essay about creepy human imperfections that was published in an obscure Japanese journal called Energy more than 40 years ago. But the ...

Dolls, silhouettes, and every character from the movie “The Polar Express” all have something in common: just looking at them can make you feel unsettled. The same goes for life-like robots, puppets, ...

So often, a work of art is meant to reflect beauty, the artist dexterously rendering something that is pleasing to the eye, recording it for posterity. But in “Uncanny” at the National Museum of Women ...

Something weird happens if you put “average” faces together—they get more attractive. Some research suggests that this may be because we find symmetrical faces more attractive, and a crooked nose on ...

Kristy Ambrose has been writing professionally since 2010. She dabbles in various genres, but her favorites are fantasy and science fiction. She creates everything from fanfiction to serialized novels ...

Now Marvel Comics has revealed four new variant covers, including one by Marquez (below) and artists Leinil Francis Yu (Wolverine), Luciano Vecchio (Resurrection of Magneto), and Andy Kubert (Ultimate ...