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encode

[en-kohd] / ɛnˈkoʊd /


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"For us, the exciting step was to encode the magnetic flux in a gauge field that was itself dynamical," says Dr. Saner.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026

Some AI companies are now trying to encode human values into their products.

From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026

By modifying an open model’s weights—which encode knowledge and behavior—anyone can tear down its safety guardrails.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026

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

But, the researchers concluded, the rats don’t appear to encode that experience as learning and memory unless they have some downtime after the experience.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel

Evidence suggests that the human genome encodes more than 200 lectins, which are carbohydrate-binding proteins involved in immune defense and communication between cells.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 16, 2026

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

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

This additional layer of complexity—that DNA encodes a protein that allows DNA to replicate—is important because it provides a critical node for regulation.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

Called “cloud dwellers,” the inhabitants of this rarefied set often communicated via poems that encoded messages about relationships, love or the intrigues of power.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2026

The notebook brand is cheap and easy to find in stores, with layouts encoded into his process.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026

The first consisted of qubits encoded in the internal states of trapped ions, which are electrically charged atoms held in place using electromagnetic fields.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026

Trauma can affect how memories are encoded and recalled.

From Slate ● Oct. 2, 2026

But if heredity was transmitted as information, then how was that information encoded?

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

This would slow down the encoding and decoding that constantly occurs in our online interactions, but it wouldn’t make things unusable.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

By encoding information into different twisting and spinning patterns, researchers may be able to increase the amount of data carried by individual light beams.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026

There are also philosophical challenges: before encoding human values into bots, AI firms have to first choose which values they actually want.

From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 30, 2026

The pullover cost me four sets of wireless code—the full lot of encoding poems, passwords, and frequencies.

From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein


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