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Can AI Music Ever Feel Human? The Answer Goes beyond...

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2025/11/02

A personal experiment with the artificial intelligence music platform Suno’s latest model echoes a new preprint study. Most listeners can’t tell AI music from the real thing, but emotional resonance still demands a human story

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COVID During Pregnancy May Raise Autism Risk, Study...

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2025/11/01

A new study adds to the evidence that viral infections during pregnancy might contribute to a child’s likelihood of having autism

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The End of the International Space Station Will Begin...

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2025/11/01

Humans have been in space onboard the ISS continuously for 25 years. As the station nears its end, new commercial habitats are lining up to take its place

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How Childhood Relationships Affect Your Adult...

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2025/11/01

A large new study reveals how early relationships with parents and friends influence how we relate to those closest to us in adulthood

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How Composers Make Horror Movie Music Sound Terrifying

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2025/10/31

Horror movie composers use musical tricks to hijack your nervous system and put you on edge

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The Interplanetary Race to Study Interstellar Comet...

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2025/10/31

Astronomers are hustling to use interplanetary spacecraft to study the interstellar comet dubbed 3I/ATLAS while the sun is hiding it from Earth

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How Supermassive Black Holes Can Become Cosmic...

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2025/10/31

Huge eruptions from the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole in the distant past may have sterilized much of the inner galaxy

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How One Mom Used Vibe Coding to Build an AI Tutor for...

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2025/10/31

Faced with her son’s struggle with dyslexia, one mom built an AI platform to help kids learn their own way

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Why Some Treats Are Trickier for Your Gut Microbiome

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2025/10/31

This Halloween discover how your candy choices can trick—or treat—the microbes in your gut.

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How Are Annual Flu Vaccines Made?

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2025/10/30

Immunologist Zachary Rubin explains how the World Health Organization decides which strains of influenza end up in annual flu vaccines.

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Chimpanzee Metacognition Allows Humanlike Belief...

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2025/10/30

Are we the only rational thinkers? New research on our primate cousins suggests otherwise

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Seismometers Picked Up Hurricane Melissa’s Historic...

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2025/10/30

Seismometers picked up the ferocious winds and waves of Hurricane Melissa, showing how the tools can be used to better understand storms today and those from the past

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Trump’s Baffling Call for Resuming U.S. Nuclear Tests

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2025/10/30

“The only countries that will really learn more if [U.S. nuclear] testing resumes are Russia and, to a much greater extent, China,” says Jeffrey Lewis, an expert on the geopolitics of nuclear weaponry

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Nanotyrannus Isn’t a Juvenile T-Rex—It’s a Separate...

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2025/10/30

An analysis suggests Nanotyrannus is a separate, smaller dinosaur that lived alongside T. rex, settling a 30-year debate

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FDA Is Investigating the Abortion Pill Mifepristone...

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2025/10/30

Some scientists are concerned that the Trump administration will use “junk science” when reviewing mifepristone’s safety record

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How an Error in Cult Classic Game Doom Sparked New...

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2025/10/30

What would the world look like if we changed the value of pi? Whether in the real world or a game environment, the answer is complex

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Glowing Sperm Reveals How Female Mosquitos Control Sex

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2025/10/30

Female Aedes mosquitoes signal that copulation can proceed by subtly extending their genitalia

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Does Hurricane Melissa Show It’s Time for a Category...

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2025/10/29

Hurricane Melissa’s powerful winds and drenching rains devastated Jamaica. But is its wrath a sign that we need a new designation for monster storms?

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Spider Web Patterns May Help Arachnids Sense...

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2025/10/29

Researchers simulated the effects that different web decorations had on vibrations, adding fresh insight to a decades-old debate about the function of these structures

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Russia’s Burevestnik Nuclear-Powered Missile Is a...

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2025/10/29

Russian leader Vladimir Putin claimed his nation conducted a successful flight of a nuclear-powered cruise missile. Here’s how that missile might work

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