Most of us are familiar with optical illusions. They make our eyes and brains question whether they are seeing things as they truly are or creating our own version of what we see. Similarly, an ...

Monisha Ravisetti was a science writer at CNET. She covered climate change, space rockets, mathematical puzzles, dinosaur bones, black holes, supernovas, and sometimes, the drama of philosophical ...

Have you ever read something online and felt it sounds robotic or too stiff, and you wish it talked like a real person sitting in front of you? Many people face this daily while reading blogs, emails, ...

Russell has a PhD in the history of medicine, violence, and colonialism. His research has explored topics including ethics, science governance, and medical involvement in violent contexts. Russell has ...

DURHAM, N.C. -- The use of 12 tone intervals in the music of many human cultures is rooted in the physics of how our vocal anatomy produces speech, according to researchers at the Duke University ...

A few years ago, two neuroscientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) made a friendly bet on whether or not the human brain responded differently to harmonic tones (heard in music ...

Seals have the rare ability among mammals to change their vocal tone to imitate human speech, prompting a study that may offer clues about how humans learn to speak. "By looking at one of the few ...