A single word has the power to evoke great emotion in us. Take me, for example: The word "taxes" will literally bring me to tears, while "wine" is akin to winning the lottery. So what are each country ...

New research from the University of Kansas uses network science to determine why people make mistakes when lip-reading. Michael Vitevitch, professor of speech-language-hearing at KU, and his ...

Using a novel technology for obtaining recordings from single neurons, a team of investigators at Harvard-affiliated Massachusetts General Hospital has discovered a microscopic “thesaurus” that ...

America is a wonderfully large and diverse country in every respect, particularly linguistically. Regional divisions tend to have enormous effects on the way we speak and the words we use — linguistic ...

It’s hard to imagine that three random words have the power to both map the globe and keep your private data secure. The secret behind this power is just a little bit of math. What3words is an app and ...

Feel like going out to eat, but want to avoid overpriced craft beer and ironic Civil War-era facial hair at any cost? Back in the day, all you could rely on to escape swarms of insufferable hipsters ...

The words we use to speak, write, and read are called our vocabulary. We need a strong vocabulary to share ideas. Before reading a story, your students should understand the words and ideas in the ...

It’s like Google Maps for your cerebral cortex: A new interactive atlas, developed with the help of such unlikely tools as public radio podcasts and Wikipedia, purports to show which bits of your ...

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