Lewis Central High School students are learning American Sign Language at the Iowa School for the Deaf, fostering communication and understanding between hearing and deaf communities ...

The fossilised bones of our ancestors remain silent. So, how can we possibly imagine what our earliest languages sounded like?

An international team proposes replacing Hockett’s feature checklist with a model of language as a dynamic, multimodal, and socially evolving system.

New discoveries of Stone Age symbols in Germany could push back the history of writing by over 30,000 years, potentially ...

How the Book of Esther uses letters to safeguard Jewish identity and language during exile and empire.

The most fundamental human act, communication, is entering a crisis that is reshaping human relationality. The stakes are not ...

People are increasingly leaning into being emotional. You can use generative AI such as ChatGPT to be a logic-to-emotion ...

Research shows Ice Age humans used structured signs 40,000 years ago as a communication system, revealing deep prehistoric ...

Many people refer to a stroke as the brain’s equivalent of a heart attack. A stroke occurs when there’s an interruption or ...

Padma Shri poet Shafi Shauq warns institutions—not people—threaten Kashmiri. He explains power, translation, and survival.

Human language may seem messy and inefficient compared to the ultra-compact strings of ones and zeros used by computers—but our brains actually prefer it that way. New research reveals that while ...

The crackle of electricity inside your brain has long been too complex to decode. Artificial intelligence is changing that.