It wasn’t like Duke University futurist Nita Farahany wanted to bring nonstop doom and gloom during her recent “The Battle for Your Brain” presentation at last week’s World Economic Forum in Davos.

A device that can recognise what words people are hearing and reproduce them in a robot voice could take us further down the road to reading the minds of people who can’t speak. The technique used ...

On a Saturday night in late August, Luke Farritor, a 21-year old computer science student at University of Nebraska-Lincoln, was on his way home from a party at a friend's house in Omaha when he saw ...

The natural world is abuzz with the sound of animals communicating — crickets, birds, even grunting fish. But scientists learning to decode these sounds say the secret signals of African elephants — ...

In Hollywood, we've received messages from extraterrestrials many times. In Contact, a message from the stars started out as a mathematical sequence of prime numbers. In Arrival, a linguist and a ...

In this year ender episode of Decode Karnataka, an annual tradition of sorts, we take stock of the events and developments ...

In 2015 Ada Colau, an activist with no experience in government, became mayor of Barcelona. She called for a democratic revolution, and for the last two years city hall, working with civic-minded ...

DD News, India’s public service broadcaster, has witnessed a dramatic surge in viewership following the launch of its flagship prime-time program ‘Decode with Sudhir Chaudhary’. Anchored by veteran ...