Dr Kyra Sin Kit Yeng CMgr MCMI shares why in the current era, language should be precise, clear and authentic: less theatre, more truth.

The evolution from chatbots to AI agents represents a fundamental shift in how humans interact with technology. Instead of using software as tools that require constant manual input, we are moving ...

Neuroscientists use AI and genetic datasets from 23andMe to map how language develops in the brain, revealing links between rhythm and dyslexia.

For the first time, researchers have digitally reconstructed the facial fragments of the individual, who belonged to the Australopithecus genus ...

Mushrooms have been used by ancient humans for millennia, but archaeologists have only just uncovered their pivotal role in ...

Although foreign languages always sound rapid-fire to untrained ears, as you swap between Thai, Japanese, and English, you’re listening to languages spoken at wildly different speeds. In this article, ...

From British to American and beyond, English has developed many unique styles. Explore the insights behind how different ...

An international team proposes replacing Hockett’s feature checklist with a model of language as a dynamic, multimodal, and socially evolving system.

Patrick E. Savage is a musicologist at Waipapa Taumata Rau, the University of Auckland, New Zealand, and at Keio University, Fujisawa, Japan. He is the author of Comparative Musicology (2026). As ...

If you've been on social media recently, you've probably seen an AI-generated cartoon of someone you know. Creating images with generative AI is a hot trend, but one man who got into AI in the 1980s ...

This is Part 3 of a four-part blog series exploring how the brain generates meaning. In Parts 1 and 2, I traced meaning from its origins in goal-directed life forms through its implementation in ...