Across the globe, a race is under way to crack some of the last mysterious forms of writing that have never been translated.

An archaeon reads the same codon in two different ways, overturning a doctrine that has stood for 60 years. Living organisms usually read the DNA code in a very strict and predictable way. Every codon ...

The beauty of the DNA code is that organisms interpret it unambiguously. Each three-letter nucleotide sequence, or codon, in ...

PythoC lets you use Python as a C code generator, but with more features and flexibility than Cython provides. Here’s a first ...

Is language core to thought, or a separate process? For 15 years, the neuroscientist Ev Fedorenko has gathered evidence of a language network in the human brain — and has found some similarities to ...

My little theory is that the concept of “imprinting” in psychology can just as easily be applied to programming: Much as a baby goose decides that the first moving life-form it encounters is its ...

TIOBE Index for December 2025: Top 10 Most Popular Programming Languages Your email has been sent December’s TIOBE Index lands with a quieter top tier but a livelier shuffle just beneath it. The main ...

New BIDMC study on COVID-19 reveals persistent immune activation in patients who developed long COVID, which could help identify new paths to treatment.

Ever wish your baby could just tell you what they want? If you follow the Dunstan Baby Language theory, they might actually be trying to — but you'll have to decode their cries to understand them.

Dress codes help us meet the expectations of the host and set the tone of an event. Source: iStockphoto / Deagreez/Getty Images Dress codes help set the tone of an event. If you’re unsure about the ...

A programming language is a set of symbols whose strings are governed by rules apt to communicate instructions to a particular machine. Such strings may be concatenated into longer code and implement ...