A new study challenges the idea that language stems from a single evolutionary root. Instead, it proposes that our ability to communicate evolved through the interaction of biology and culture, and ...

A new framework argues that human language did not arise from a single evolutionary leap but from the convergence of many ...

For decades, scientists have known that only a few groups of birds—songbirds, parrots, and hummingbirds—can learn to produce new sounds. But a new article in The Quarterly Review of Biology reveals ...

Most of us learnt that ‘a’ goes before consonants and ‘an’ before vowels – and most of us were only half-right. This Learning ...

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?

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The co-hosts of The View sounded the alarm on Thursday’s show about just how safe it is to fly now that the government has been shut down for 37 days. “So, there’s a shutdown because the Republicans ...

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