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

The word "Olympics" is rooted in ancient Greece. In Greek mythology, the gods would descend from Mount Olympus into the town ...

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 ...

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

Neural decoding is the study of what information is available in the electrical activity (action potentials) of individual cells or networks of neurons. Studies of neural decoding aim to identify what ...

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