What Is the Uncanny Valley? The uncanny valley hypothesis states that artificial characters and objects that are almost but not fully human-like will trigger a deep sense of unease. To depict this ...

Where astronomers thought there was one brown dwarf, there’s actually two. And the object they studied isn’t just any ordinary brown dwarf. Gliese 229B was the first known brown dwarf ...

(We like humanoid objects up to a point, but when they cross a threshold of realism without actually being real, we find them repulsive.) But the notion of the uncanny dates back farther than that ...

Historically, male Surrealists have portrayed women in rather uncanny ways, presenting them as fetishised or infantilised objects rather than as fully dimensional humans. The Surrealist pieces in ...