AI-generated voices now indistinguishable from real human voices

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Many people still think of AI-generated speech as sounding “fake” or unconvincing and easily told apart from human voices. But new research from Queen Mary University…

Scientists sidestep Heisenberg uncertainty principle in precision sensing experiment

Dr. Christophe Valahu in the Quantum Control Laboratory at the University of Sydney Nano Institute. Dr. Valahu is standing in front of the ion trap used in the experiment. Credit:…

Information could be a fundamental part of the universe, and may explain dark energy and dark matter

Credit: CC0 Public Domain For more than a century, physics has been built on two great theories. Einstein’s general relativity explains gravity as the bending of space and time. Quantum…

Early Clues to Autism and Schizophrenia Risk Found in DNA

Summary: Researchers have built a detailed map of DNA methylation changes in nearly 1,000 human brains from six weeks after conception to old age. The work reveals dramatic epigenetic shifts…

NASA’s IMAP spacecraft getting packed up for launch photo of the day for Sept. 24, 2025

Recently, NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP), along with the agency’s Carruthers Geocorona Observatory and NOAA’s Space Weather Follow On-Lagrange 1 (SWFO-1) spacecraft, were encapsulated inside the payload fairing…

AI models predict when patients can safely stop long-term antidepressant use

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain New machine learning models developed by University of South Australia (UniSA) researchers could help clinicians identify when patients can successfully stop long-term antidepressant use. Using artificial…

China’s Alibaba teams up with Nvidia on AI robot tech

Credit: Ruben Boekeloo from Pexels Alibaba announced on Wednesday a “milestone collaboration” in AI tech with US chip giant Nvidia that the Chinese company said will accelerate its development of…

Distribution of fat could influence cancer risk, study suggests

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain How fat is distributed in people’s bodies could make a difference to their risk of certain cancers, according to new research led by the University of…

Archaeologists investigate sacred Piedra Letra monument

Archaeologists from the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) have conducted a study of Piedra Letra, located on a hill overlooking Huehuetónoc in the Mexican state of Guerrero. According…

‘Invisible’ asteroids near Venus may threaten Earth in the future