You've likely encountered URLs full of strange symbols and percent signs while browsing the internet on your smartphone or Chromebook. At first glance, these URLs often look like a mess of random ...

We've rounded up some of the best (and still affordable) products for you to get the most bang for your buck. Read now Encoding has always been part of digital audio. Lossless formats encode ...

What is encoding? And is it as important to the science of reading as its counterpart, decoding? Test your knowledge by taking our quiz. Once you complete the quiz, you can see how your score compares ...

What is ENCODE? “ENCODE is vast,” writes science writer Ed Yong towards the end of this massively comprehensive (albeit characteristically lucid) introduction to this ambitious international genome ...

Back in 2001, the Human Genome Project gave us a nigh-complete readout of our DNA. Somehow, those As, Gs, Cs, and Ts contained the full instructions for making one of us, but they were hardly a simple ...

Here are more scientific takes on the “junk DNA”ENCODEstudy that has gotten so much media hype, along with my own comments. This post covers a lot of ground, so I’ve added subheds for the various ...