10+ hour ago  (124+ words) The Debrief Time Mysteries, Radio Signals from Beneath Antarctica, and the Recovery of a "Lost" Ancient Manuscript This week in stories we're covering at The Debrief" groundbreaking new research suggests time could hold the key to resolving the mysteries of…...

12+ hour, 30+ min ago  (790+ words) University of Pennsylvania engineers have developed an AI-powered audio editor called Smart Dj that lets users customize their immersive sound environment with simple, everyday language voice commands, similar to how AI image generators operate. The research team behind the "Chat…...

12+ hour, 31+ min ago  (821+ words) The research team behind the somewhat haunting findings suggests that understanding how even brief exposure to infrasound from creaking buildings or raging thunderstorms below 20 Hertz (Hz), which is too low for most humans to hear, could help design strategies to…...

1+ day, 9+ hour ago  (284+ words) The most abundant stars are dwarf stars with a tenth of the mass of the Sun. They live for trillions of years (as calculated here), over a hundred times longer than the Sun's lifespan. If intelligent life were common around…...

1+ day, 11+ hour ago  (582+ words) Scientists have finally obtained evidence of a rare cosmic phenomenon first predicted decades ago using a novel detector deep beneath the frozen southern continent of Antarctica. Initially conceived during the Cold War by a Soviet physicist, researchers say the first…...

2+ day, 6+ hour ago  (823+ words) Are there hidden connections between some of the most mysterious phenomena in modern physics, including gravity, quantum mechanics, and the nature of time itself? That is the premise behind new research tackling some of the most perplexing problems that continue…...

2+ day, 9+ hour ago  (665+ words) The mysteries of solar prominences'massive plasma structures floating above the Sun's surface like gravity-defying ships, which can cause dangerous solar eruptions'are finally revealed in new research from Germany's Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS). These massive solar structures…...

3+ day, 11+ hour ago  (729+ words) Giant 19-meter-long octopuses resembling the mythical kraken may have rivaled the apex predators of the Late Cretaceous oceans, according to new paleontological research involving ground-breaking digital fossil mining techniques. Many invertebrates evolved protective shells, reinforcing their role as prey. Octopuses,…...

4+ day, 11+ hour ago  (1072+ words) MIT engineers studying the effect of sound waves on plant reproduction have shown that elements within rice seeds evolved to detect gravity can "hear" the sound of raindrops impacting the water's surface above them. Unlike humans, who often describe raindrops…...

4+ day, 12+ hour ago  (293+ words) New research from Griffith University, in collaboration with international partners, has found that cocaine pollution in freshwater environments can alter the behavior of wild salmon and other fish, changing how they move in natural ecosystems." The research examined juvenile Atlantic…...