Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine have uncovered a fundamental principle underlying how the human brain processes ...

When English speakers say "rose" and Chinese speakers say "玫瑰," do they mean the same thing? A Peking University team led by ...

The world of brain research has a secret flaw. For decades, studies into how the mind works have been carried out primarily by English-speaking scientists on English-speaking participants. Yet their ...

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 ...

There are more than 7,000 languages in the world, and their grammar can vary a lot. Linguists are interested in these differences because of what they tell us about our history, our cognitive ...