Teachers of Japanese in Britain are shaking up the way they teach the language in order to challenge Western stereotypes and ...

Despite the vast differences in human and bee brains, both of us can do mathematics. As we argue in a new paper published in ...

The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted many aspects of human life, including language use and interaction dynamics in vulnerable minority communities. Yet little ...

As Odisha prepares to celebrate the 90th anniversary of its birth as India’s first linguistic province, and the Muslim League ...

Linguistics is one of the degrees most often dragged through the mud for being “useless,” but The Lord of the Rings, one of ...

Mark Wallace, the owner of the Rex Bar in Belfast’s Shankill Road, knows just two phrases in Irish. The first is “Shankill” – ...

What would you do if you discovered that aliens were real, and a lot closer than you’d imagined? Would you be awestruck or terrified? That’s the premise of Steven Spielberg’s Disclosure Day, and in ...

Steven Spielberg is synonymous with science fiction, and he’s especially associated with sci-fi stories that feature aliens, but it’s actually been 20 years since the director of E.T. and Close ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Among the myriad abilities that humans possess, which ones are uniquely human? Language has been a top candidate at least since ...