Dog brains have the capacity to detect speech and distinguish between different languages, according to a study published in December. Since family dogs are exposed to a continuous flow of human ...

Language plays an increasingly important role in search. Revealing the similarities and differences between languages through network science might seem daunting, but researchers at the Tokyo ...

The legend tells that the Eskimo language has an exceptional number of words for "snow" (the exact number varies from dozens to thousands), and as a result, native speakers of these languages have a ...

The Neanderthals (Homo neanderthalensis) fascinate researchers and the general public alike. They remain central to debates about the nature of the genus Homo (the broad biological classification that ...