Austrian economists insist one cannot use the methodology of the physical sciences to explain economic phenomena. In this ...

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 ...

A recent study performed on chimpanzees demonstrates that chimpanzees possess cognitive flexibility similar to that of humans. When circumstances or evidence change, chimps appear to do the thing ...

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

Since 2023, Kim Jong Un and Kim Yo Jong have repeatedly labeled South Korea as an " enemy state," solidifying the language that turns inter-Korean relations into a state-to-state, rather than ...

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

If the UN does not awaken, it will be remembered not as a promise that protected humanity, but as a warning of what happens ...

Claims that Jeffrey Epstein's case files used 'jerky' as a code for human meat are false; emails confirm he was referring to ...

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

A growing body of genetic evidence suggests that Neanderthals and Denisovans carried many of the same regulatory gene networks linked to language and vocal anatomy in modern humans, challenging the ...

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

After four years of war, life in shattered cities like Mariupol and villages like Kudriashivka remains difficult, with ...