A student must be able to decode before they can truly build reading fluency or comprehension. That’s not a preference. It’s how reading works. Yet in IEP meetings, I often see teams rush toward ...

The room we are in is locked. It is windowless and lit from above by a fluorescent bulb. In the hallway outside—two stories beneath the city of London—attendants in dark suits patrol silently, giving ...

After poring over recordings from sperm whales in the Caribbean, UC Berkeley linguist Gasper Begus had an unlikely breakthrough. According to a new study from Begus and his colleagues with Project ...

Abstract: Encoding and decoding of Reed-Muller codes have been a major research topic in coding and theoretical computer science communities. Despite of the fact that there have been numerous encoding ...

A new study out this month from Stanford University researchers uses microelectrodes implanted in the motor cortex and generative AI to decode the intended and inner speech of four paralyzed patients.

Imagine plucking a guitar string. It vibrates, the sound lingers, and then fades away as the energy drains into the air. Now bring this scene down to the scale of an atom. Can an atom vibrate in the ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: String theory—the idea that particles are not point-like, but instead one-dimensional strings—is a popular theoretical framework that attempts to ...