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

Along the way, ideas emerged in various ways. Some grew out of unintentional bugs, including one that allowed players to die ...

The beauty of the DNA code is that organisms interpret it unambiguously. Each three-letter nucleotide sequence, or codon, in a gene codes for a unique amino acid that's added to a chain of amino acids ...

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 ...

Cook County in Illinois has unanimously approved plans that could give thousands of residents $500 a month in free cash. America's second largest county is committing $7.5 million to fully fund a ...

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