Summary: A new study shows that genetic evidence of historical contact between populations reveals consistent patterns of language change. By combining genetic data with linguistic databases, ...

In arguing that language enforces the power imbalance between the sexes, she inspired an entire academic field. By Trip Gabriel Robin Lakoff, a linguist who analyzed what she considered the unique ...

The linguistic relativity hypothesis is one of the most hotly debated theories in psychology. According to this theory, the specifics of the language that you speak can shape how you think, in ...

Could an ancient mock-up just outside the Great Pyramid explain its internal design? Ancient Architects examines the Trial Passages and what they might reveal about the blueprint behind Egypt’s most ...

Next week, Comic-Con returns to San Diego, where, back in August 1970, it began life as the Golden State Comic Book Convention in the basement of the U.S. GrantHotel. That first event drew about a ...

What just happened? FFmpeg developers keep on crunching "handwritten" assembly code to make the multimedia project faster than ever before. Thanks to newer vector-based instructions included in modern ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprisingly simple “tissue code”: five rules that choreograph when, where, and how cells divide, move, and die, allowing organs like the colon to remain flawlessly ...

Devstral Small 1.1 (also called devstral-small-2507) is based on the Mistral-Small-3.1 foundation model and contains approximately 24 billion parameters. It supports a 128k token context window, which ...

Xavier Lopez is a producer for Code Switch. He came to NPR from CNN Audio, where he helped produce shows such as Chasing Life with Dr. Sanjay Gupta and the inaugural season of Tug of War. Prior to ...

Residents of St. Louis Park, Minnesota, are being called upon to have their say as the city dives into phase 2 of its zoning code update. The City announced, via a social media post, that after ...

Abstract: Machine learning models are widely used, but can also often be wrong. Users would benefit from a reliable indication of whether a given output from a given model should be trusted, so a ...

LLMs have shown impressive capabilities across various programming tasks, yet their potential for program optimization has not been fully explored. While some recent efforts have used LLMs to enhance ...