Nate Rouette and his brother Nelson went shark fishing on Cape Cod hoping for an exciting catch, but were shocked by what they reeled in — a tropical species of shark with a reputation for eating everything it can swallow. The brothers, longtime sport fishermen who live in Massachusetts, released a juvenile tiger shark in
The market for AI-generated speech models is huge. Creative use cases require AI voice models to be more expressive, while companies looking to automate customer service and sales operations need them to be more manageable. Palo Alto-based Fish Audio wants to address all of those use cases with its library of more than 15,000 natural
the idea that Cancer could behave like a contagious disease may seem absurd; In humans, cancer cannot be transmitted from one person to another. However, nature is still full of surprises. In rare cases, the cancer cells themselves can pass from one individual to another and continue to multiply in a new host. This rare
we are not even One month into “super” Niño, the Pacific’s natural weather pattern characterized by warmer-than-average sea surface temperatures, and fisheries around the world are already turbulent. In Peru, government officials have effectively canceled the anchovy fishing season, one of the country’s most important exports and a leading source of fish oil and animal
docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), An omega-3 fatty acid found in abundance in fatty fish such as mackerel and sardines is believed to improve cognitive function by promoting connections between brain cells. However, it has never been conclusively shown that DHA taken as a dietary supplement actually reaches the brain or provides measurable anti-dementia benefits. In this
Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Over the long and complicated course of evolutionary history, mammals independently turned towards water to make a home multiple times. While many of the warm-blooded animals that abandoned dry land for a watery habitat no longer exist, we still