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Researchers made a significant discovery using an artificial neural network model, suggesting that musical instinct may emerge naturally from the human brain. By analyzing various natural sounds through Google's AudioSet...

The power of gravity is writ large across our visible universe. It can be seen in the lock step of moons as they circle planets; in wandering comets pulled off-course by massive stars; and in the swirl of gigantic galaxi...

A wearable device that sticks to the skin can constantly measure the size of certain tumours and wirelessly transmit that information to a smartphone

Have you ever woken from a dream, emotionally laden with anxiety, fear, or a sense of unpreparedness? Typically, these kinds of dreams are associated with content like losing one's voice, teeth falling out, or being chas...

Certain materials have desirable properties that are hidden, and just as you would use a flashlight to see in the dark, scientists can use light to uncover these properties.

The tangle is known as a trefoil knot -- and it's made up of just 54 atoms.

A "chicken from hell" dinosaur that lived just before the asteroid struck has been discovered in South Dakota.

A person wearing a VR headset and haptic feedback gloves can control the iCub 3 robot and experience being somewhere else

Scientists uncovered the oldest-ever genome of bacteria in the same family as syphilis.

The powerful James Webb Space Telescope captured a starburst complex in the Large Magellanic Cloud, with stunning results.

Returning to university teaching after almost two decades, Annalee Newitz finds they have become the Rip Van Winkle of pedagogy and tries to get to grips with the terrible learning technology

Feedback is intrigued to discover that nominative determinism can also apply to companies, but distressed to learn what this can mean for those purchasing salads

Describing menstrual products using euphemistic language such as "feminine hygiene products" reinforces the trope that menstruation is shameful. It's time to stop, says Jen Gunter

Photographer Matjaz Krivic has been charting the effects of lithium mining on locals in the world's largest salt flat in Bolivia since 2016

Biochemist Katalin Karikó believed in mRNA's potential, but funders were quiet and she was demoted. Still, she dug in, preparing the world for life-saving covid-19 vaccines, as she writes in her memoir

Holographic display technology provides an ultimate solution for real 3D display and has great potential in augmented reality and virtual reality. However, the color and viewing angle of holographic 3D display mainly dep...

Producing steel generates huge amounts of CO2 emissions. These could be reduced with a technique that repurposes the hazardous red mud generated when refining aluminium

A scientist scoured satellites for signs of unreported Emperor penguin colonies and made a shocking discovery.

Add a dash of creamer to your morning coffee, and clouds of white liquid will swirl around your cup. But give it a few seconds, and those swirls will disappear, leaving you with an ordinary mug of brown liquid.

Birds have inspired human flight for centuries, but Shabnam Raayai thinks they can also offer lessons in reducing energy consumption.

Estimates suggest that there were tens of thousands of pregnancies as a result of rape between July 2022 and January 2024 in US states that effectively have total abortion bans