Human languages are complex phenomena. Around 7,000 languages are spoken worldwide, some with only a handful of remaining speakers, while others, such as Chinese, English, Spanish and Hindi, are ...

In their classic 1998 textbook on cognitive neuroscience, Michael Gazzaniga, Richard Ivry, and George Mangun made a sobering observation: there was no clear mapping between how we process language and ...

When zebra finches hear a call from another bird, they don’t just react on instinct. New research shows that these birds actually understand what those calls mean – in the same way that humans ...

The clock is ticking for petroleum-derived dyes. With eight synthetic colorants slated for removal from the US food supply and several global brands already reformulating, the search for stable, ...

An NLP-driven network analysis of Reddit comments reveals that the term "pain" serves as a central hub for symptom discourse, offering insight into how patients describe their experiences. A Natural ...

High-integrity carbon and biodiversity markets are scaling fast, transforming natural capital into one of the century’s most powerful asset classes. Unsplash+ Natural capital, the planet’s stocks of ...

Tommy Lowe, co-founder of Cracker Barrel, blasted CEO Julie Felss Masino over the company’s logo redesign Thursday. Lowe, 93, called the since-scrapped logo “crazy,” calling it “a bland nothing” and ...

Apple researchers have developed an adapted version of the SlowFast-LLaVA model that beats larger models at long-form video analysis and understanding. Here’s what that means. Very basically, when an ...

A TTCT-inspired dataset was constructed to evaluate LLMs under varied prompts and role-play settings. GPT-4 served as the evaluator to score model outputs. In recent years, the realm of artificial ...

The diversity of forms of wildlife in Illinois is astonishing. There are hundreds of species of fish and birds, and thousands of species of plants and insects. Illinois is home to over 400 species of ...