The search for extraterrestrial life in our solar system just got more exciting. A team of scientists including Southwest Research Institute’s Dr...

More than 122 million Americans—about half of the U.S. population ages 20 and older—have high blood pressure, referred to medically as hypertension. Hypertension is a major cause of cardiovascular disease, and despite advances in treatment, even patients who take medications to control their blood pressure remain at high risk of death from diseases like heart attack, heart failure, and stroke.

The lack of new drugs to effectively control hypertension and associated cardiovascular problems has fueled a search for novel treatment strategies, and now, researchers at the Lewis Katz Scho...

A molecule found in the venomous toadfish Thalassophryne nattereri has proven capable of controlling lung inflammation and could be the basis for a more effective asthma drug. The research was conducted by scientists at Butantan Institute in São Paulo, Brazil. An article describing the results is published in the journal Cells.

A welter of fish species live in freshwater, seawater, and a mixture of the two, and some of them are venomous. They have spines or stingers connected to venom glands, which are a kind of pouch full of molecules, large and small, that are toxins...

The 19th century philosopher Thomas Carlyle once declared, “Music is well said to be the speech of angels.”

One wonders what Tom would have thought about a later era serving up protopunk, death metal and gothic rock.

Moreover, what would he have had to say about current approaches to music composed not by angels but by CPUs, RAM and large language models?

Meta announced last week that it has developed an AI music processor that generates music based on natural language descriptions.

Meta’s MusicGen, which follows on the heels of Google’s January release of MusicLM that generates music based on text prompts or humming, was trained on 20,000 hours of music...