Today, humans speak over 7,000 languages, yet all of them might share a common origin that dates back at least 135,000 years.

When did human language begin? It’s a deep question about our past. A new study suggests that humans had the ability to use ...

One of the most profound questions about human history is when language, as we know it, first emerged. A new analysis of ...

An AI model trained on dozens of hours of real-world conversation accurately predicts human brain activity and shows that ...

The origins of human language remain mysterious. Are we the only animals truly capable of complex speech? Are Homo sapiens the only hominids who could give detailed directions to a far-off freshwater ...

A new study links a particular gene to the origins of spoken language, proposing that a protein variant found only in humans may have helped us develop speech.

A new study suggests that the NOVA1 gene may have been a key player in the evolution of human language. By Carl Zimmer Scientists have long struggled to understand how human language evolved.

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) A unique human variant of the NOVA1 protein, absent in Neanderthals and Denisovans, may have influenced the development of spoken language. When introduced into ...

Generative AI systems like large language models and text-to-image generators can pass rigorous exams that are required of ...

A common interest in language unites social scientists and natural language processing (NLP) researchers. While both fields leverage the strong connection between language and behavior, social ...

President of the U.N. Human Rights Council Jürg Lauber stopped the video and declared that Bayefsky had used inappropriate language. Bayefsky begins by saying "The world now knows Palestinian ...