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OpenAI released Jukebox, a state-of-the-art AI model capable of generating music with vocals in the style of various artists and genres. I highlight some of my favorite samples and discuss the legality of it all.
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Retraction Watch has been tracking retractions of papers about COVID-19 as part of their database. Here's a running list, which will be updated as needed.
The Global Research Council (GRC) is calling on its participating organisations and the global research community to collaborate in the fight against the virus and encourages openness in sharing research findings and data which will help ensure diagnostics, vaccines and prevention measures are developed rapidly for the benefit of every nation.
When India’s 1.3 billion people come out of a 40-day lockdown on 3 May, imposed to contain the spread of COVID-19, they can hope that a battery of technologies that the government is readying to deploy against the contagious virus could offer them some protection.
CERN is contributing computing resources to a volunteer-computing initiative that aims to better understand the virus behind COVID-19.
This is an online platform for sharing knowledge, tools, training and resources for citizen science – by the community, for the community.
Christian Drosten, who has become Germany's most popular podcaster, warns against reopening the country too soon.
A biology professor who spent his career studying two seemingly disparate topics, emerging infectious diseases and networked misinformation, sees them merged into one the moment reports of a mysterious respiratory illness emerged from China in January.
Eight ways in which scientists hope to provide immunity to SARS-CoV-2 .
Experts say the pandemic is letting bad science slip through the cracks.
Paving the way for the future through research.
Target audience are healthcare professionals from all specialities.
Only one species is responsible for coronavirus - humans - say world's leading wildlife experts.
A public forum for researchers to discuss the science of science, current events, and science policy issues.
What does it mean for science - and public health - that scientific journals are now publishing research at warp speed?
Far more people have died over the past month than have been officially reported, a review of mortality data in 11 countries shows.
Atma Ivancevic shares what keeps her passionate about science when academic work gets tough, and while working from home.
Researchers believe they could pre-emptively create vaccines and drugs to fight a wide range of viral threats - if they can get sufficient funding.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb is frustrated whenever the coronavirus crisis is referred to by the term he coined for an unpredictable, rare catastrophe.
Anders Tegnell talks to Nature about the nation's 'trust-based' approach to tackling the pandemic.
The lungs are ground zero for COVID-19, but blood clots may play a surprisingly big role in severe illness.
Magical thinking hampered the ability of even some of the most seasoned infectious diseases experts to recognize the full threat.
PLOS Biology, PLOS Medicine, PLOS Computational Biology, PLOS Genetics, PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases and PLOS Pathogens have all revised their ‘scooping’ policy to waive the novelty criteria for work submitted within six months of a similar study having been published.
Due to precautionary measures in regard to the coronavirus, the second day of this year's Open Science Conference got canceled. Luckily, the panellists Johanna Havemann, Anne-Floor Scholvinck, Daniel Spichtinger and August Wierling agreed to submit their opening statements as a blog post.
During this unprecedented global emergency, LIBER calls on European Commissioners, Member State governments, publishers and authors to urgently help libraries, universities and other educational establishments, so that they can continue supplying researchers, teachers and students with access to books, archives and other instructional materials.
