Hi, we're here from Curiosity.com to help you get smarter in just a few minutes.

I'm Cody Gough.

And I'm Ashley Hamer.

Today you learn about how an algorithm made new scientific discoveries by reading old studies,

how your pets can be allergic to you, and a psychological

theory that explains why insecure people brags so much.

What satisfy some curiosity?

An algorithm has made new scientific discoveries by reading old studies and

researchers from the US Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

have shown how doing this could help us further scientific research in the future.

So think about it.

In pretty much any research field you can think of, there are decades of past literature

and every week dozens more studies come out.

Remember when Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin?

His paper about that sat around mostly unread for a whole decade,

until another scientist found it and started working on making penicillin the life-saving breakthrough

we know today. How many other papers do you think might be just sitting around waiting to be fully

explored? It might be impossible for your average team of scientists to read through millions of research papers,

but a machine learning algorithm is another story.

For a July 2019 study published in the journal Nature, Berkeley Lab scientists turn to a technology known as natural language processing or NLP.

Every time you use Google Translate or ask Siri for directions, you're taking advantage of NLP, which helps computers

read, decipher, and make sense of human language.

...