New research reveals how human DNA preserves the story of language contact, showing when and where languages converged, diverged, and evolved.

NASA research mathematician Katherine Johnson is photographed at her desk at Langley Research Center in 1966. Johnson made critical technical contributions during her career of 33 years, which ...

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CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - Lesser-known history is coming to light thanks to an ongoing project involving a Lowcountry museum and library system. With a quick call to the Charleston County Public ...

Greenland sled dogs can trace their origins back nearly 10,000 years. In a new study published July 10 in the journal Science, paleogeneticists mapped the path of these culturally important canines ...

If you've never heard of Gault, lean in. "So, leave it to a Texan to go to Antarctica and come home with a story about Texas," said Dallas' Olive Talley with a laugh. It was 2017. The former ...

Scientists have discovered the oldest direct evidence of betel nut chewing in Southeast Asia by analyzing 4,000-year-old dental plaque from a burial in Thailand. This breakthrough method reveals ...

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In a new paper published Thursday titled "Auditing language models for hidden objectives," Anthropic researchers described how custom AI models trained to deliberately conceal certain "motivations" ...

Elon Musk has said he’s unhappy with the data used to train his AI model, Grok, and now plans to Grok-ify the entire history of human knowledge. Elon Musk says his artificial intelligence company xAI ...