Since decoding the “waggle dance” in the 1940s, bees have been at the forefront of research into insect intellect. A new study shows that bees can be trained to understand the dot-dash behavior of ...

In Morse code, a short duration flash or ‘dot’ denotes a letter ‘E’ and a long duration flash, or ‘dash’, means letter ‘T’. Until now, the ability to discriminate between ‘dot’ and ‘dash’ has been ...

Scientists have cracked the code behind a mysterious language discovered among a non-human species living in Earth's oceans that mirrors human speech. Using AI to study whale communication, Project ...

It is well known that pictographic languages that use Hanzi, like Mandarin, are difficult to work with for computer input and output devices. After all, each character is a tiny picture that ...

Sperm whales swimming off the coast of Dominica. The marine mammals have a complex communication system that scientists are working to decode. Amanda Cotton Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 ...

Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory and Johns Hopkins University have reported a major advance in characterizing quantum noise, a barrier that continues to slow progress toward ...

Civic freedoms in the U.S. have declined in the wake of President Donald Trump's return to office, the annual report from CIVICUS found. by Solcyré Burga by Sean Gregory / Las Vegas by Philip Elliott ...

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