Ph.D. candidate Yuchen Lian (LIACS) wants to understand why human languages look the way they do—and find inspiration to ...

Image Credit: allanw / Shutterstock.com. Here at Guessing Headlights, we love cars. We love driving them, working on them, and occasionally even writing about them. We also love language and the ...

I’m a product of the post-World War II baby boom and a self-confessed language aficionado. I certainly am not a linguistic expert, but over the past few years I have noticed something seems to be ...

This story is from The Pulse, a weekly health and science podcast. Find it on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. Joshua Plotkin, a biology professor at the University of ...

What happens to language when two populations come together? A new study in Science Advances has sought to answer that question with the help of human genetics. In fact, in a first-of-its-kind ...

My son is a wizard. He walks into the kitchen, looks at me and utters the magic words: “Can I have a cheese and tomato sandwich, please?” A few minutes later, just such a snack appears in front of him ...

Students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill now have access to free kits that revive someone suffering an opioid overdose and test strips to see what the drugs they are about to take ...

Language is one of the few faculties that still seems to be uniquely human. Other animals, like chimpanzees and songbirds, have developed elaborate communication systems, but none appears to convey ...

The big thinkers at Aperture explore how the English language continues to evolve in surprising ways. Investigators seize luxury goods over alleged fraud Boy, 9, feels unwell after hike—parents face ...