Like culture, language evolves.

If you take a look at a piece of old English text like Beowulf, it's pretty likely you wouldn't be able to understand the majority of words.

I mean, I can't even make it past the first word.

Hey, what?

Then we gardina, I guardagum.

Okay.

I don't know, but if someone from 8th century England time travel to today, they definitely wouldn't

understand us either.

The language is changing faster than ever thanks to technology.

Our algorithms aren't just speeding up trend cycles for things like fashion and movies.

They're accelerating the development of our vocabulary.

So this episode, I'm going to talk to Adam Alexic about how technology, social media, the internet, and even podcasts are changing the

way we communicate with one another. Then, we'll take a look at a study that not only debunks the

idea of an ancient Egyptian curse, but it turns it into a new potential drug to

target leukemia cells. But first, let's chat about a new DNA search engine that can make a

significant impact for biological and collaborative research. This is Curiosity Weekly from Discovery,

and I'm Dr. Samantha Umeen. Let's get into it. A new tool is enabling scientists to search vast public DNA, RNA, and protein databases

in just seconds. It's called Metagraph, though some are calling it the Google of DNA.

It's the new tool developed at ETH Zurich. It offers capabilities that far exceed traditional

search engines. Like while Google indexes

hundreds of billions of web pages, Metagraph can efficiently sift through millions of billions

of DNA letters. That's huge amounts of data that reach into the realm of pedibases.

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