Many languages recycle words, giving them different meanings. For example, in English, "run" can mean to move quickly but ...

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Lifelike biochemistry continued to unfold in sterilized soil for six years, pointing to a metabolic theory for how biology began. For 15 years, Sébastien Fontaine has been trying to kill dirt. The ...

The study focused on brain cell activity in a structure called the hippocampus, which is important for memory and learning. SDI Productions via Getty Images It’s a well-worn trope of medical dramas: A ...

Think about a word that looks like its meaning. For instance, the word bed kind of looks like a bed, with the vertical lines resembling the posts at either end. Loop looks very loopy. Some words are ...

Anthropic just announced a new feature called “dreaming” at the company’s developer conference in San Francisco. It’s part of Anthropic's recently launched AI agent infrastructure designed to help ...

Under general anesthesia, the conscious mind shuts off—or so we have long thought. But a new study of people in this state suggests the anesthetized brain still picks up sounds, words and even ...

Speech sounds like it is made of words, but that impression has more to do with what’s in our heads than with what comes out of our mouths. In natural speech, there are no clear acoustic boundaries ...

Have you ever lost a Word document due to an unexpected PC crash? Just this week, I experienced this firsthand. Hours of work vanished when my document disappeared. I didn’t panic, though, because my ...