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Music made with artificial intelligence could upend the music industry. Here’s what that might look like.

Google’s new AI model can generate entirely new music from text prompts. Here’s what they sound like.

Machine-learning algorithms are getting so good that they can translate Western instruments into Thai ones with ease.

In the inaugural episode of Cosmos, Quickly, we blast off with Lt. Gen. Nina Armagno of the Space Force, who is charged with protecting our space in space, […]

An MQ-9 Reaper drone is sitting at the bottom of the Black Sea. Will the U.S. or Russia recover it?

The Nord Stream pipeline explosions happened in a dumping ground for chemical warfare, but other contaminants proved most toxic to marine life

Image-generating AI is getting better at re-creating what people are looking at from their fMRI data. But this isn’t mind reading—yet

The burgeoning field of “digital bioacoustics” is helping us understand animals like never before.

OpenAI just released an updated version of its text-generating artificial intelligence program. Here’s how GPT-4 improves on its predecessor

Bailouts mean customers’ deposits are safe, but the Silicon Valley Bank’s demise has sparked concern about future investment in small tech companies

Top universities are finally bringing the excitement of the quantum future into the classroom

Famed AI wins in Go let human players rethink their moves in a whole new way

Will a possible breakthrough for room-temperature superconducting materials hold up to scrutiny?

The Lucy spacecraft and its target asteroids show that the way that we name discoveries matters

We needs a permanent national nuclear waste disposal site now, before the spent nuclear fuel stored in 35 states becomes unsafe

Honoring women at the forefront of science

“Xenobots” are living, swimming self-powered robots that measure less than a millimeter across. They are evolved by artificial intelligence and built […]

Congress and the airline industry must reassess how they approach and fund air transportation modernization

Futuristic food science technology could finally bring plant-based salmon filets and tuna steaks to the table

A thin film can switch from releasing heat to trapping it, and wrapping the coating around buildings could make them more energy-efficient

From space aliens to foreign surveillance, we spoke to experts to find out what’s really going on with the balloon brouhaha.

The program also challenges certain assumptions about self-driving cars

Researchers demonstrate for the first time that using more qubits can lower the error rate of quantum calculations

Squishy robots can now heal themselves and grow as they explore

Gonzalez v. Google seeks to hold tech giants accountable for recommendation algorithms in a complicated case that could see the Supreme Court meddle in more […]