Credit: STEPHANIE ARNETT/MITTR | PUBLIC DOMAIN, ENVATO In our bustling modern world, noise-canceling headphones offer respite from the cacophony. However, their indiscriminate sound reduction can inadvertently drown out important voices. Enter a new prototype AI system called “Target Speech Hearing.” It allows users to select a specific person’s voice to remain audible even amidst noise...
Brilliant red auroras seen over China in May 2024. (Image credit: Getty Images) If you want to see the northern lights from outside the Arctic Circle, be ready to drive to a dark place during the first week of June. The strongest geomagnetic storm in over twenty years occurred between May 10 and May 12, lighting...
Credit: Pixabay The DINK (Double Income, No Kids) lifestyle allows couples to save the income typically spent on a child's education, health, and upbringing. Divya Maben and her husband Nithin Koshy, based in Bangalore, have chosen to remain childless, finding the idea of parenthood daunting. Both in their early thirties, they run two companies and prioritize...
Credit: Pixabay A research team at Osaka University is launching an investigator-initiated clinical trial for patients with refractory prostate cancer, following the successful development and animal model efficacy confirmation of a new alpha-ray therapeutic agent, [At-211] PSMA-5. This will mark the world's first in-human clinical trial using [At-211] PSMA-5. Prostate cancer is increasing globally and...
The Sif Mons area with the active volcanic region highlighted in red Recent lava flows observed on Venus indicate that the planet may be significantly more geologically active than previously believed, potentially rivaling Earth's activity. These geological processes, initially identified by the Magellan spacecraft in the 1990s, are likely still ongoing and will be crucial observation...
Kilnam Chon during a conference at the Museum of the Future in Dubai. Research, including the Artificial Intelligence Index Report 2024 from Stanford University, shows that AI has surpassed humans in tasks like image classification and English comprehension, but it still lags in areas like advanced mathematics and planning. Kilnam Chon, an 81-year-old computer scientist known...
Two images of a wheat spike. The top image is a spike from an alog1 mutant, with additional spikelets highlighted in pink. The bottom image is a normal spike from a plant without the edited gene. Credit: University of Adelaide Scientists have uncovered new insights into the role of a well-known wheat gene, Photoperiod-1 (Ppd-1),...
Credit: Depositphotos A new study anticipates a worsening global water scarcity scenario, projecting that by 2100, as much as 66% of the population could be impacted, particularly in regions of the Global South. This highlights the urgent necessity to address both the quantity and quality of water in forthcoming water management strategies. Conducted by researchers at Utrecht...
The Karoo Adventure camper measures 5 meters longKaroo Toy-hauler campers often compromise between being cold, spartan towable garages with uncomfortable fold-down furnishings or fully equipped campers with gear cluttering the living space. The new Karoo Adventure camper aims to minimize these compromises, offering a dual-purpose design with an empty floor for gear transport and a...
The MQ9-Reaper – which uses an internal combustion engine currently – at this altitude pictured here simply illustrates the feat that Dr. Ifana Mahbub is trying to overcome with power-beaming technologyGeneral Atomics DARPA has boosted funding for far-field wireless power transfer, or power-beaming, for in-flight drone charging. This eliminates the need for mission interruptions for...
