Two years after Gilead Sciences secured the first option on Assembly Biosciences’ entire pipeline, the pharma has decided to pick the first fruits from the pact. Gilead is paying $35 million upfront ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Among the myriad abilities that humans possess, which ones are uniquely human? Language has been a top candidate at least since ...

The studio behind the Total War games have been busy bees. If launching new DLC for Total War: Warhammer 3, announcing even more new DLC, and announcing other games wasn’t enough, Creative Assembly ...

TL;DR: Creative Assembly's Total War series, known for massive real-time battles and deep strategy, is expanding to PlayStation and Xbox consoles with its new Warcore engine. Total War: Medieval III ...

Is language core to thought, or a separate process? For 15 years, the neuroscientist Ev Fedorenko has gathered evidence of a language network in the human brain — and has found some similarities to ...

Lin Tian receives funding from the Advanced Strategic Capabilities Accelerator (ASCA) and the Defence Innovation Network. Marian-Andrei Rizoiu receives funding from the Advanced Strategic Capabilities ...

Are tech companies on the verge of creating thinking machines with their tremendous AI models, as top executives claim they are? Not according to one expert. We humans tend to associate language with ...

A new Science paper challenges the idea that language stems from a single evolutionary root. Instead, it proposes that our ability to communicate evolved through the interaction of biology and culture ...

As Democrat Mikie Sherrill handily defeated Republican Jack Ciattarelli in New Jersey’s bitterly contested gubernatorial race Tuesday, she also learned she’ll work with a state Legislature where both ...

Preliminary results of New Jersey’s 2025 legislative elections started coming in Tuesday night, after the vast majority of in-person polls closed at 8 p.m. But as of early Wednesday morning, several ...

A UPS plane crash in Louisville resulted in the temporary closure of the neighboring Ford Assembly Plant. The crash, which killed at least nine people, is the deadliest in UPS Airlines history. Ford's ...

In the Nov. 4 election, New Jersey voters will select a new governor and will also elect all 80 members of the General Assembly, the lower house in the state Legislature. In the highly competitive ...