05/03/2018

Deep-learning system generates specific genre-based music

Izaro Goienetxea, a UPV/EHU researcher, has developed a method for automatically generating new tunes on the basis of a collection or corpus comprising tunes used in bertso—a form of extempore, sung, Basque verse-making. ...

Funding renewable energy is easier than taxing carbon

It is not difficult to understand the appeal of a carbon tax. It's an elegant, straight-forward solution to the climate change crisis. The only problem with it is that it is politically infeasible in the United States and ...

How Earth's earliest lifeforms protected their genes

Think your life is hard? Imagine being a tiny bacterium trying to get a foothold on a young and desolate Earth. The earliest lifeforms on our planet endured searing heat, ultraviolet radiation and an atmosphere devoid of ...

How to reduce poverty and re-connect people to nature

Access to food and water —once considered common goods and a basic human right —are increasingly treated as commodities, like precious metals or lumber. Instead of being necessities for life that are available to all, ...

'Warm Saturn' exoplanet discovered by astronomers

Using data from NASA's prolonged Kepler mission, known as K2, astronomers have found a new "warm Saturn" exoplanet. The newly discovered alien world, named EPIC 247098361 b, is similar in mass to Saturn, but much hotter. ...

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