You’re reading Superintelligent, a newsletter about AI. Click here to get the full edition in your inbox. Adam Aleksic is the author of “Algospeak: How Social Media Is Transforming the Future of ...

The popular version of the story sounds almost too perfect: NASA is still flying the Voyager spacecraft with code written in a 1970s-era programming language that barely anyone understands anymore, ...

What happens to language when a growing amount of text published in the press, online and on social media is written by machines? This question is not just important for the profession of journalism – ...

Joe Grantham is a contributor from the UK with a degree in Classical Studies. His love for gaming is only rivaled by a deep passion for medieval history, which often seeps into his articles. With over ...

Programming languages shape how software, apps, and websites are built, making them one of the most important skills in the modern digital world. With industries shifting toward automation, AI tools, ...

An innovative gene-editing strategy could establish a new way for the body to manufacture therapeutic proteins—including certain kinds of highly potent antibodies the are naturally difficult to ...

Sperm whales’ click-based communication system has patterns that echo how human languages use vowels, according to a new study published today in Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological ...

The stories we tell ourselves about ourselves do not develop in a vacuum. They are in constant dialogue with much bigger stories – the shared narratives of our culture and our time. These stories ...

Imagine having to wall off a part of your identity whenever you enter a room. For many of our multilingual students, this is the reality they face every morning when they step into school. Because so ...

AMHERST — When President Donald Trump signed executive order 14224 in March 2025, he proclaimed English to be the official language of the United States. But a member of the faculty at the University ...