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 ...

Researchers identify a specialized "satellite" language network in the cerebellum, offering new insights into how the brain processes communication and potential treatments for aphasia.

Watch as a team of drones destroys their target in a demonstration of Fury. That is, the Fury Autonomous Vehicle Orchestrator ...

Birds across the planet share a learned warning cry that may echo the origins of language itself. Bird species that live ...

For example, one of the things about modern English that would most strike a time traveler from the past is the frequency of “I was like …” among younger speakers, as in “And I was like ‘You don’t ...

A surprising new study shows that baby chickens react the same way that humans do when tested for something called the "bouba ...

Putting humans and LLMs head-to-head in classic tests of judgment from human psychology underscores the differences between ...

An effort to conserve Indigenous languages has brought song and books translated to the Kaqchikel language to a school in ...

“Many call types assort together, much like words are commonly given together within bodies of human text, such as grass and ...

The more effective machines become at generating output, the more valuable collective human inputs prove. Meetings that once ...

The evolution of human hands is one of the most important – and overlooked – stories of our origin. Now, new fossil evidence ...

Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We ...