The 2015 Paris Climate Conference (COP21) is in full gear and climate change is again on everyone’s mind. It conjures up images of melting glaciers, rising sea levels, droughts, flooding, threatened ...

People across the world describe their thoughts and emotions, share experiences and spread ideas through the use of thousands of distinct languages. These languages form a fundamental part of our ...

We ran a piece last year summarizing an IEEE study of programming-language popularity based on job listings. This article fostered conversation, including debates about whether the languages IEEE used ...

Reporting in Science, researchers write that many of today's most widely spoken languages, like English, Spanish and Hindi, can be traced back to ancient tongues in present-day Turkey. Evolutionary ...

Funding from the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center, the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, and the National Science Foundation to Michael Gavin (BCS-1660465) and Claire Bowern ...

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During a recent campaign-style speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), former President Donald Trump added a new twist to his usual anti-immigrant discourse by suggesting that ...

Based on their experience training US diplomats, the Foreign Service Institute (FSI) divided all the languages they teach into four distinct categories. The higher the category, the "harder" the ...

Hundreds of our languages are teetering on the brink of extinction, and as Rachel Nuwer discovers, we may lose more than just words if we allow them to die out. Tom Belt, a native of Oklahoma, didn’t ...

These days, it seems as if everything is a love language. For some, it’s iced coffee. For others, it’s sarcasm. Or a mechanized mattress. Representative Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts once declared ...