The sounds that make up humpback whale songs follow some of the same statistical rules seen in human languages, which may be because of how they are learned ...

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All known human languages display a surprising pattern: the most frequent word in a language is twice as frequent as the ...

Despite humans and whales being separated by millions of years of evolution, our vocalizations follow the same principle ...

Getting stuck in a negative loop is part of many mental health disorders. A new therapy focuses more on these thought patterns than the thoughts themselves.

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The instructions for building and operating a human being are written with just four letters, abbreviated A,T,C and G representing four chemicals arranged like steps that are strung along in a ...

Feb. 7, 2025 — Researchers have analyzed the soft tissue from a fossilized plesiosaur for the first time. The results show that the long-necked marine reptile had both smooth and scaly skin ...

Feb. 7, 2025 — New research using publicly-shared DNA barcodes and citizen science images have provided new evidence on the establishment and spread of a biological ...

Increasingly, there are AI applications that can problem-solve, understand and mimic human language, identify patterns, learn and reason ... text generators that use vast amounts of data and complex ...

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