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- Researchers from the Netherlands have broken down DNA of world's largest mammals to discover how whales defy the cancer odds. (more)
- Qatar opened its first ever metro service to the public in Qatar's capital, Doha, as the country readies for the 2022 football World Cup. (more)
- French adventurer Jean-Jacques Savin completed his solo crossing of the Atlantic Ocean in a barrel after 128 days. (more)
- A new species of dinosaur named Ambopteryx longibrachium with bat-like wings has been discovered in China, shedding light on how dinosaurs evolved into birds. (more)
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- Chile's Cristian Garin won the 2019 Munich Open tennis title beating Italy’s Matteo Berrettini 6-1, 3-6, 7-6 (7/1) in the final. (more)
- Chinese scientists have found a 160,000-year-old jawbone fossil from an extinct ancient human lineage known as the Denisovans in a cave on the Tibetan plateau. (more)
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Synthetic Speech Generated from Brain Recordings
A state-of-the-art brain-machine interface created by UC San Francisco neuroscientists can generate natural-sounding synthetic speech by using brain activity to control a virtual vocal tract – an anatomically detailed computer simulation including the lips, jaw, tongue and larynx. The study was conducted in research participants with intact speech, but the technology could one day restore the voices of people who have lost the ability to speak due to paralysis and other forms of neurological damage.
Stroke, traumatic brain injury, and neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson’s disease, multiple sclerosis and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS, or Lou Gehrig’s disease) often result in an irreversible loss of the ability to speak. (More)
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