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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 still demands a human story

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

Humans have been in space onboard the ISS continuously for 25 years. As the station nears its end, new commercial habitats are lining up to take its place

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

Horror movie composers use musical tricks to hijack your nervous system and put you on edge

Astronomers are hustling to use interplanetary spacecraft to study the interstellar comet dubbed 3I/ATLAS while the sun is hiding it from Earth

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

Faced with her son’s struggle with dyslexia, one mom built an AI platform to help kids learn their own way

This Halloween discover how your candy choices can trick—or treat—the microbes in your gut.

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

Are we the only rational thinkers? New research on our primate cousins suggests otherwise

Seismometers picked up the ferocious winds and waves of Hurricane Melissa, showing how the tools can be used to better understand storms today and those from the past

“The only countries that will really learn more if [U.S. nuclear] testing resumes are Russia and, to a much greater extent, China,” says Jeffrey Lewis, an expert on the geopolitics of nuclear weaponry

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

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

What would the world look like if we changed the value of pi? Whether in the real world or a game environment, the answer is complex

Female Aedes mosquitoes signal that copulation can proceed by subtly extending their genitalia