AlphaGenome is a leap forward in the ability to study the human blueprint. But the fine workings of our DNA are still largely a mystery. By Carl Zimmer In 2024, two scientists from Google DeepMind ...

The Michigan Department of Education met its Jan. 1 deadline to publish lists of materials that align with the state's new literacy laws, providing school districts with vetted tools to help students ...

The FBI untangled the mysterious Jan. 6, 2021, pipe bombs case by relying on a “new computer program,” which deciphered cellphone data that the agency had held for years. Earlier this month, the ...

EEG sensors record brain activity (left), generating brainwave signals (middle) that are analyzed by explainable AI (top right) and mapped onto brain regions (bottom right) to detect and interpret ...

Abstract: While neural BP-based (NBP) decoders exhibit superior error correction performance compared to belief-propagation (BP) decoders, the NBP decoder's high ...

For centuries, humans have wondered what animals are really trying to say. Now, thanks to artificial intelligence, scientists are getting closer to answering that question. From decoding whale songs ...

Amogh Chaturvedi is running on little sleep but plenty of conviction at 6 a.m. He’s groggy, apologetic for rescheduling, and still reeling from a recent scare involving a family member and an electric ...

Most experimental brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) that have been used for synthesizing human speech have been implanted in the areas of the brain that translate the intention to speak into the muscle ...

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To better understand human cognition, scientists trained a large language model on 10 million psychology experiment questions. It now answers questions much like we do. By Carl Zimmer Companies like ...