Engineers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have designed the first robot capable of not only playing music, but creating music—and its name is Shimon. The musical robot was trained on a vast data set of everything from progressive rock…
The Rolling Stones have just announced ‘Extra Licks’ – a series of special past performances that will be streaming worldwide, every Sunday exclusively on YouTube! Starting this Sunday May 03 at 8pm BST / 12pm PT / 3pm ET, the…
Just in case you didn’t already have enough reasons to love Academy Award-winning actor Tom Hanks, he recently disclosed that he and his wife Rita Wilson would be donating their blood to help scientists develop potential treatments for COVID-19. Hanks…
Although adults around the world have been forced to start working from home amidst the novel coronavirus outbreaks, a global poll of 2,250 office workers suggests that many of them are actually much happier working from home. Not only that,…
As the world continues its fight to curb the novel coronavirus outbreaks, several countries have announced significant recoveries this week. France, Italy, and Spain—the countries with the highest numbers of confirmed cases outside of the US—outlined their plans for slowly…
Photo by Ryan van Emmenis An English father and his three kids have been using their daily outings during the COVID-19 shutdowns to clean neglected headstones in local cemeteries. Every day since the lockdowns were first implemented one month ago,…
A team of Japanese researchers have taken a small step towards creating a treatment method for the currently incurable and largely untreatable Alzheimer’s disease by successfully trialing a nasal spray option in mice. The nasal spray was found to reduce…
Florida scientists have just made history by becoming the first in the world to reproduce ridged cactus coral in human care. Researchers from The Florida Aquarium are particularly excited about the discovery because it will one day be able to…
Since thousands of couples have been forced to cancel, postpone, or adapt their wedding plans during the COVID-19 outbreaks, Gov. Andrew Cuomo has made it easier for nuptials to tie the knot. This weekend, the governor announced that New Yorkers…
This morning the children have been writing letters and making cards for Captain Tom Moore wishing him a very happy 100th birthday! 🥳💌📮@captaintommoore #makeacardfortom #walkwithtom #TomorrowWillBeAGoodDay pic.twitter.com/HWwWxTN0kM — SRA Primary (@SRAPrimary) April 20, 2020 It has been a little over…
