Every living organism has its own genetic "blueprint": the source code for how it grows, functions and reproduces. This ...

Messages get jumbled because memory is reconstructive, cognitive biases shape interpretation, and social context alters how ...

Human language may seem messy and inefficient compared to the ultra-compact strings of ones and zeros used by computers—but our brains actually prefer it that way. New research reveals that while ...

From “Trump” to “Russian” to “dentist,” the only way to gaze into the Epstein-files abyss is through a keyword-size hole.

In a new study, published in Cell, researchers describe a newfound mechanism for creating proteins in a giant DNA virus, comparable to a mechanism in eukaryotic cells. The finding challenges the dogma ...

Dealing with categorical data is an essential part of data preprocessing in many machine learning tasks. Fortunately, encoding categorical data efficiently helps enhance the performance of machine ...

Auditory illusions, like how a word begins to sound meaningless when repeated, offer clues into the structure of language.

Scientists are using artificial intelligence to study sperm whale clicks. These clicks, called codas, show structured ...