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With GROVER, a new large language model trained on human DNA, researchers could now attempt to decode the complex information hidden in our genome. GROVER treats human DNA as a text, learning its ...

Three recent books about language and communication, intended for a general audience, are well worth your time. They address perennial issues about the nature of language and language change with ...

This exhibition examines the critical and creative functions of language in global contemporary art from the 1980s to the present. This exhibition examines the critical and creative functions of ...

A new study suggests that everyday multilingual habits—from chatting with neighbors to revisiting a childhood language—may help preserve memory, attention, and brain flexibility as we age. An ...

In December, the Bowdoin College Museum of Art opened Turn of Phrase: Language and Translation in Global Contemporary Art, an exhibition examining the critical and creative functions of language in ...