[ad_1] Nicola Privato and Giacomo Lepri introduce Stacco Nicola Privato and Giacomo Lepri have developed Stacco. It’s a wooden-like musical instrument that can produce sound art and chimes by throwing, combining, or moving magnetic marbles on its surface. The instrument employs Neural Audio Synthesis, a technology that helps Stacco create and manipulate sounds using artificial […]
[ad_1] Despite decades of research, the direct cause of brain damage in Alzheimer’s disease has remained stubbornly elusive. A team led by Emory University in the US may have just discovered why. Much study has focused, now controversially, on abnormal clumps of naturally occurring proteins that increase in Alzheimer’s brains as the disease progresses: plaques
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[ad_1] A Texas agency has given Elon Musk’s SpaceX a slap on the wrist for spewing toxic wastewater into the fragile ecosystem around its sprawling Starbase launch site, according to CNBC. The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) accused SpaceX of “discharging deluge water” without their approval in early August, adding to a total of
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[ad_1] The world’s best golfers make playing look so effortless, it’s hard to imagine what’s going on inside their minds. But modern neuroscience allows us to do exactly that. My team’s new study shows how different parts of an expert golfer’s brains are activated when they putt their ball into the hole. Putting is a
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[ad_1] The body is pretty good at repairing itself, but some parts of our anatomy struggle to bounce back after an injury. One such material is cartilage – the spongy yet firm connective tissue that keeps our bones from rubbing and jarring against each other. Over time, the translucent or ‘hyaline’ components of cartilage can
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[ad_1] Developing a competitive table tennis player out of a robot arm Researchers at Google Deepmind, the company’s artificial intelligence research laboratory, have developed ABB’s robot arm into a competitive table tennis player. It can swing its 3D-printed paddle back and forth and win against its human competitors. In the study that the researchers published
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[ad_1] Chicago authorities are scratching their heads after a woman died from getting tangled up in a baggage carousel’s conveyor belt at the O’Hare International Airport, The Guardian reports. The strange situation came to light on Thursday when fire officials were called to the airport that morning on a report of someone being stuck in
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[ad_1] OpenAI keeps losing top talent, suggesting considerable inner turmoil at the ChatGPT maker. Cofounder John Schulman announced he’d left the company this week to join rival AI company Anthropic, while president Greg Brockman is taking a leave of absence. VP of consumer product Peter Deng has also quit, indicating major shifts in OpenAI’s upper
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[ad_1] It is easy to imagine the moon as an atmosphere-less hunk of rock orbiting Earth. However, while lacking breathable air, our planet’s loyal natural satellite companion does have a thin and wispy atmosphere. Scientists have long puzzled over the existence of this tenuous atmosphere or “exosphere” and have searched for the main process that
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[ad_1] Every now and again, our planet ponies up a fossil so spectacular that almost all you can do is gape in wonder. Sometimes those fossils are the magnificent remains that once trod Earth’s surface with thunderous feet. Sometimes, they are mere motes, particles at which you may not look twice – but contain within
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