A new study suggests that language may rely less on complex grammar than previously thought. Every time we speak, we’re ...

Every time we speak, we're improvising. "Humans possess a remarkable ability to talk about almost anything, sometimes putting ...

The rapid growth (and partial retreat) of “they” and “them” has gotten a lot of attention in recent years, but English is ...

Scientists from the RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science and colleagues have developed a new way to fabricate ...

Archaeologists found a mechanical device on a Roman shipwreck. It’s complex, precise, and resembles a modern analog computer. Then came the cave artifact — a power plug embedded in stone, dated at ...

Vernon residents say they feel excluded from decisions about a large sports complex proposed just across the village line. The 150-acre development would include dozens of athletic fields, indoor ...

Westmoreland County prosecutors said Friday they will appeal what they contend is a too lenient sentence imposed on a New Kensington man convicted in October for the assault of an autistic teen during ...

An incredible new image shows the multi-tailed alien comet 3I/ATLAS shooting past a distant galaxy in the night sky. The stunning scene is a reminder of the object's perfectly natural interstellar ...

Pupil dilation has become a well-established physiological index of cognitive effort. Here we examined the often-cited finding of an inverted U-shaped function of pupil size across the continuum from ...

Imaging buried objects Left: artistic impression of metal spheres buried in small glass beads; centre: conventional ultrasound image; right: the new technology can precisely determine the positions of ...