AI Matches Humans in Vocal Emotion Detection

Summary: Machine learning (ML) models can accurately identify emotions from brief audio clips, achieving a level of accuracy comparable to humans. By analyzing nonsensical sentences to remove the influence of…

Study clarifies a key question in particle physics about muon’s magnetic moment

The muon storage ring at Fermilab. Credit: Reidar Hahn/Wikimedia Commons Magnetic moment is an intrinsic property of a particle with spin, arising from interaction between the particle and a magnet…

Using polarization to improve quantum imaging

Astronomers discover a rare eclipsing X-ray binary

OGLE IV, Swift UVOT, and Swift XRT light curves for Swift J010902.6-723710. Credit: Gaudin et al, 2024 An international team of astronomers reports the detection of a rare eclipsing Be/X-ray…

American bullfrogs may be threatening a rare frog species in Brazil

American bullfrog DNA has turned up not far from the only known habitat of Pithecopus rusticus — a small, critically endangered tree frog that lives in Brazil. Bullfrogs are native…

Are you one of the millions about to have cataract surgery? Here’s what ophthalmologists say you need to know

Cataract surgery is one of the most popular and commonly performed procedures in the world. The vast majority of patients have excellent outcomes with few complications. Here are the numbers:…

Nvidia Ups Ante in AI Chip Game With New Blackwell Architecture

Nvidia is pumping up the power in its line of artificial intelligence chips with the announcement Monday of its Blackwell GPU architecture at its first in-person GPU Technology Conference (GTC)…

Why does temperature determine sex in long-lived reptiles? – Functional Ecologists

In this blog post, Samantha Bock, a post-doctoral researcher, discusses her study “Differential early-life survival underlies the adaptive significance of temperature-dependent sex determination in a long-lived reptile“, which has been…

Fish fed to farmed salmon should be part of our diet, too, study suggests

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain The public is being encouraged to eat more wild fish, such as mackerel, anchovies and herring, which are often used within farmed salmon feeds. These oily…

AI ethics are ignoring children, say researchers

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Researchers from the Oxford Martin Programme on Ethical Web and Data Architectures (EWADA), University of Oxford, have called for a more considered approach when embedding ethical…