Sperm whales in the wild. Image via Wikipedia. A groundbreaking study has revealed that sperm whale “codas” (short sequences ...

Pennsylvania House Democrats withdrew consideration of a resolution honoring March as "National Women’s Month" after a Republican lawmaker filed an amendment to include the physiological definition of ...

Unruly Republic: Columnist Barton Swaim argues that Democrats' response to President Trump's attack on Iran is motivated by the Iraq war, appeasing the progressive left, but ultimately brings us back ...

Graffiti spelling “Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious” in bright colors covers a long concrete barrier beside a highway, with cars and a red dump truck driving on ...

Momentum Over Milestones: Success is not the destination you applaud at the finish line; it is the courage to stay aboard while the landscape blurs, the turns tighten, and the goalpost keeps moving ...

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In 2024, the chair of the statewide University of North Carolina Faculty Assembly and the UNC state system embarked on a fraught mission at a fraught time: writing “a consensus definition” of academic ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Among the myriad abilities that humans possess, which ones are uniquely human? Language has been a top candidate at least since ...

Is language core to thought, or a separate process? For 15 years, the neuroscientist Ev Fedorenko has gathered evidence of a language network in the human brain — and has found some similarities to ...

The Joint Commission’s new National Performance Goals take effect in January 2026 and language access, once viewed as a patient experience issue, is emerging as a core safety and accreditation ...