Sperm whales in the wild. Image via Wikipedia. A groundbreaking study has revealed that sperm whale “codas” (short sequences ...

What are we missing?” A nationwide gap in phonics instruction galvanized the science of reading movement. But as the movement ...

The ground beneath your feet may be carrying on a kind of conversation. Research into fungal electrical signaling has found that underground networks of fungi generate patterns bearing a striking ...

Zipf’s Law states that the most common word in any language appears twice as often as the second most common, three times as often as the third, ten times as often as the tenth. It is constant ...

Suspicion and affection. Apprehension and excitement. Most people have mixed feelings about AI English, whether or not they always recognize it. When reading text generated by AI, people feel it ...

In January middle school and high school students at more than 200 host sites across the U.S. and parts of Canada competed in the North American Computational Linguistics Open Competition (NACLO), ...

The data engineer started as a casual reader of the Jeffrey Epstein files. Then he became obsessed, and built the most ...

Section 1. Purpose and Policy. From the founding of our Republic, English has been used as our national language. Our Nation’s historic governing documents, including the Declaration of Independence ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The first time I noticed it, I was at a dinner party in my late 20s. A man across the table was talking about a movie—nothing ...

Everyone's diagnosing everyone with narcissism on the thinnest of criteria these days, but it turns out there is one way to detect a potential personality disorder in a person: their speech patterns.

Is it possible to spot personality dysfunction from someone's everyday word use? My colleagues and I have conducted research that suggests you can, and often sooner than you might expect. Whether in a ...

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 ...