Scientists observed spotted hyenas (Crocuta crocuta) playing in the wild and found that their precise, sophisticated ...

Her work explores how new AI technology is infiltrating our lives, shaping the content we consume on social media and ...

All Mediterranean sperm whales were thought to be part of one cultural group, identifiable by a unique pattern of clicks, or ...

Why do our spellings not match our pronunciations? Why are so many words just really weird? Alice Loxton and Ben Henderson take us on a whistle stop tour of some of the key moments that forged the ...

The International Phonetic Alphabet: one sound for each symbol, and one symbol for each sound, except for the sounds we can't make. Written with Gretchen McCulloch and Molly Ruhl. References: - ...

Sperm whales’ click-based communication system has patterns that echo how human languages use vowels, according to a new study published today in Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological ...

One of the nice things about prose is the absolutely enormous narrative checks you don't ever have to cash. Andy Weir can write that an alien scientist from the star 40 Eridani has a tonal language ...

Sound designers Erik Aadahl and Ethan Van der Ryn tell IndieWire about reverse-engineering and performing a non-human language. One of the nice things about prose is the absolutely enormous narrative ...

In this video, I’m having a little fun comparing how the phrase 'yes yes yes' from Chinese would be spoken in Swedish, Russian, and Japanese. I love exploring these cross-linguistic quirks and sharing ...

A new study suggests that everyday multilingual habits—from chatting with neighbors to revisiting a childhood language—may help preserve memory, attention, and brain flexibility as we age. An ...

Why is it so easy to hear individual words in your native language, but in a foreign language they run together in one long stream of sound? Researchers from UC San Francisco have begun to answer that ...