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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 s ...

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

Horror movie composers use musical tricks to hijack your nervous system and put you on edge The iconic shower scene in Psycho ...

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

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

Seismometers picked up the ferocious winds and waves of Hurricane Melissa, showing how the tools can be used to better ...

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

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

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

The only countries that will really learn more if [U.S. nuclear] testing resumes are Russia and, to a much greater extent, ...

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