Galileo once observed that nature is written in math. Biology might be written in words. Natural-language processing (NLP) algorithms are now able to generate protein sequences and predict virus ...

A few months ago I wrote an article based on a recent study I read in a peer reviewed journal (A Simple Mind Trick that Reduces Emotional Pain). I quickly started getting (slightly) annoyed comments ...

A team of scientists has published a new version of the Database of Cross-Linguistic Colexifications (CLICS), covering lexical associations in more than 3,100 languages varieties. The new version of ...

A bewildering array of new terms has accompanied the rise of artificial intelligence, a technology that aims to mimic human thinking. From generative AI to machine learning, neural nets and ...