The Indus Valley script dates back around 4,000 years but has yet to be deciphered. Can AI help decode it?

Several years ago, my linguistic research team and I began developing a computational tool we call "Read-y Grammarian." Our ...

Every living organism has its own genetic "blueprint": the source code for how it grows, functions and reproduces. This blueprint is known as a genome. When scientists sequence a genome, they identify ...

Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the scripts behind the awards season’s most talked-about movies continues with Warner Bros‘ Weapons. Writer-director Zach Cregger described the ...

Here’s a cheat sheet for decoding this year’s A.I.-driven tech lingo, from RAG to superintelligence. By Brian X. Chen Brian X. Chen is The Times’s lead consumer technology writer and the author of ...

The culprit behind the mysterious disappearance of one of the most advanced urban civilizations at the time, contemporaries to Mesopotamians and Egyptians, has finally been identified: a series of ...

Harappa was one of the large cities created by the Indus Valley civilization. Smn121 via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 3.0 What happened to the Indus Valley civilization? The culture, also known as ...

Climate warming and severe droughts dealt a death blow to the Indus Valley Civilisation, a mysterious urban culture that flourished around 4000 years ago in what is now Pakistan and India. This ...

Before a car crash in 2008 left her paralysed from the neck down, Nancy Smith enjoyed playing the piano. Years later, Smith started making music again, thanks to an implant that recorded and analysed ...

For centuries, humans have drawn a line between themselves and other species, initially claiming that other animals couldn’t feel pain. Science proved they could. Then the argument shifted: Animals ...

The Swami Omananda Saraswati Museum in Haryana, home to thousands of Indus Valley artefacts, faces neglect despite holding treasures that could reshape India's ancient history and unlock the mysteries ...