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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

Instead of functioning as stop signals, TAA and TAG appeared to encode entirely different amino acids.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 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

These units encode messages to build proteins—and the messages and proteins, in turn, enable the form and function of a living organism.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

“But what helps our scientists is that it encodes information very, very broadly.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026

Most of the viral genome contains instructions for structural proteins, but it also encodes several specialized proteins required for replication.

From Science Daily ● May 13, 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

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

Trauma can affect how memories are encoded and recalled.

From Slate ● Oct. 2, 2026

Those mutation targets are encoded into mRNA and manufactured into a vaccine—a process that takes about six weeks from the date of the biopsy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026

"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

Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin encoded the message using a one-time pad.

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

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

It may also lead to better ways of transmitting signals between devices and encoding more information within them.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 28, 2026

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

And she did give them code—eleven sets of encoding poems, passwords, and frequencies.

From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein


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