Cracking the code: How a “prediction machine” is resurrecting the Singapore Stone

Some years ago, my linguistic research team and I started to develop a computational tool aimed at reconstructing the text of ...

Don’t lick that cold metal pole in winter—if you do, don’t panic

We all remember that infamous scene in the 1983 classic, A Christmas Story, where a boy licks a cold metal post on the ...
The Debrief

Scientists Successfully Use String Theory to Challenge More Than a Century of Assumptions About Living Systems

Scientists from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) have used mathematical concepts from string theory, a theoretical description of the mechanics of the entire universe, to upend over a century of ...