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encode

[en-kohd] / ɛnˈkoʊd /


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Cohen found MOTS-c by combing through the 97% of human DNA that doesn’t encode for genes.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 6, 2026

He emphasizes that the human ability to encode information developed gradually over tens of thousands of years.

From Science Daily Feb. 25, 2026

Since 2019, Microsoft's Silica project has been trying to encode data on glass plates, in a throwback to the early days of photography, when negatives were also stored on glass.

From Barron's Feb. 18, 2026

Now, the Surge doesn’t think it would be that much effort to encode those promises into law, to be extra careful.

From Slate Jan. 17, 2026

Instead of trying to measure the area inside a parabola as the Greeks did, early algebraists sought to find the solutions to equations that encode relationships between different numbers.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

Understanding how an animal brain encodes memories and the emotional responses they evoke could lead to better cognitive therapies for post-traumatic stress disorder.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 27, 2025

Watson was 25 when he and English biophysicist Francis Crick figured out the double-helix structure of DNA that encodes the essential information for life.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 23, 2025

This might be because the brain encodes bodily information as part of the details of an event.

From Science Daily Nov. 3, 2025

But when the researchers looked at Arhgap36’s genetic sequence in orange cats, they didn’t find any mutations in the DNA that encodes the Arhgap36 protein.

From Science Magazine Nov. 27, 2024

The fact that the genome also encodes genes to repair damage to the genome was discovered by several geneticists, including Evelyn Witkin and Steve Elledge.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

"The significance extends far beyond phages – it suggests that genome language models are beginning to learn the design principles encoded by evolution, opening the door to AI-assisted genome writing."

From BBC Aug. 6, 2026

A model can’t be jailbroken into revealing dangerous knowledge if its weights haven’t encoded that knowledge.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 26, 2026

“Up to that point, the highest number of encoded qubits anyone has done any experiments with was two or three, and they jumped straight to 48,” Fitzsimons explained.

From Barron's May 20, 2026

Still, federal authorities warned local law enforcement that they had detected a new broadcast of a likely encoded sequence that could be “an operational trigger” for “sleeper assets” potentially on U.S. soil.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 10, 2026

Does each termite possess a fragment of blueprint, or is the whole design, arch by arch, encoded in his DNA?

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas

Accordingly, he discerns that much of what passes for “AI alignment” is, in practice, a small number of San Francisco labs encoding their idiosyncratic values into systems that now shape billions of lives.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 10, 2026

Jargon, while efficiently encoding this knowledge, adds a safety buffer.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 30, 2026

Their approach uses high-dimensional encoding and is based on a well-known optical phenomenon called the Talbot effect.

From Science Daily Apr. 1, 2026

Future work will focus on increasing the gray levels used in encoding to expand capacity even further, as well as improving the long-term stability, uniformity and repeatability of the recording materials.

From Science Daily Mar. 29, 2026

Power was broadcasting in the clear, rather than encoding his message.

From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin




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