Gilead Sciences GILD recently announced that it has exercised its combined option to exclusively license Assembly Biosciences’ ASMB herpes simplex virus (HSV) helicase-primase inhibitor programs. The ...

Gilead Sciences, Inc. (Nasdaq: GILD) and Assembly Biosciences, Inc. (Nasdaq: ASMB), today announced Gilead has exercised its combined option to exclusively license Assembly Bio’s herpes simplex virus ...

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 ...

If only they were robotic! Instead, chatbots have developed a distinctive — and grating — voice. Credit...Illustration by Giacomo Gambineri Supported by By Sam Kriss In the quiet hum of our digital ...

When a judge ordered the Trump administration in September to restore Harvard’s federal funding, programs that received foreign language study grants through the Education Department breathed a sigh ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Education Department is handing off some of its biggest grant programs to other federal agencies as the Trump administration accelerates its plan to shut down the department ...

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Six elementary schools are getting new Spanish language programs as Chicago Public Schools seeks to broaden access to multilingual programs and graduate more students with bilingual skills. Little ...

Rollercoaster Tycoon wasn’t the most fashionable computer game out there in 1999. But if you took a look beneath the pixels—the rickety rides, the crowds of hungry, thirsty, barfing people (and the ...