In the 2016 science fiction movie "Arrival," a linguist is faced with the daunting task of deciphering an alien language ...

Language is ephemeral, it leaves no examinable trace in the fossil records. Unlike bones, we can’t dig up ancient languages ...

When it comes to the survival of animals living in the wild, the characteristics of the group can matter as much as the ...

Chromosphaera perkinsii is a single-celled species discovered in 2017 in marine sediments around Hawaii. The first signs of its presence on Earth have been dated at over a billion years, well before ...

Why is human culture—the shared body of knowledge passed down across generations—so much more powerful than animal cultures?

Extraordinarily well preserved fossils of feathered dinosaurs and other creatures got that way after being frozen in time by by volcanic eruptions, researchers have long suggested. Not so fast, says a ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi congratulated US President-elect Donald Trump, highlighting the deep trust Americans have in his leadership. Both leaders fondly recalled past interactions like the ...