Medical billing mistakes are an expensive epidemic in American healthcare. Studies consistently show that a staggering majority of hospital invoices contain errors, ranging from double billing to ...

Artificial intelligence is helping researchers analyze whale clicks, elephant calls, and bat vocalizations in ways that were impossible just a few years ago. The goal is no longer just listening to ...

In each episode, host Willa Paskin takes a cultural question, object, or habit; examines its history; and tries to figure out what it means and why it matters. New episodes come out every two weeks.

Neural encoding is the study of how neurons represent information with electrical activity (action potentials) at the level of individual cells or in networks of neurons. Studies of neural encoding ...