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 s ...

"So many people have noticed this change but didn’t quite know how to describe it until now," Vivian Peterson told Newsweek.

Two of the federal workers who filed an emergency complaint about the Department of Housing and Urban Development speak out ...

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Republican voters criticize President Barack Obama's campaign appearance for Rep. Mikie Sherrill as 'fake excitement' during ...

Ghost stories are preserved by the retelling. Here are two: one from colonial Virginia, complete with scratchy cassette ...

Physicians still use the sounds they hear through stethoscopes ... allowing clearer and more balanced sound by reducing outside noise. These early models are remarkably similar to the stethoscopes ...

The shutdown is being felt across Thurston and Pierce counties. Roughly 14,000 federal workers aren't getting paychecks, and ...

With '13 Months of Sunshine,' the Portland-born rapper known for sun-drenched party anthems takes inspiration from his Ethiopian and Eritrean heritage ...

While rare in English-language books, “xigua” (西瓜), pronounced “shee-gwah", is occasionally used in English dictionaries as ...