Written and spoken language can exist separately in the brain, a new study from Johns Hopkins shows. The study looked at stroke victims with aphasia that impaired their communication capabilities in ...

Google has taken on its fair share of ambitious projects — digitizing millions and millions of books, mapping the whole world, pioneering self-driving cars. It's a company that doesn't shy away from ...

After his indictment last week, Donald Trump announced on Truth Social, “These Thugs and Radical Left Monsters have just INDICATED the 45th President of the United States of America.” We know he meant ...

For a long time, anthropologists believed that a written language was a hallmark of a society being complex or 'advanced.' A new study on precolonial Mesoamerican societies shows that you can have a ...

ON JULY 20th, Kyle Wiens, who runs two technology companies, wrote a blog post for Harvard Business Review titled "I Won't Hire People Who Use Poor Grammar. Here's Why." The nub: If you think an ...

Andreea S. Calude receives funding from the Royal Society Marsden Grant and Catalyst Seeding Grant . My grammar checker and I are on a break. Due to irreconcilable differences, we are no longer on ...

LAST week’s column looked at the long history of language declinism: for more than 600 years people have complained that youngsters cannot write proper English anymore, and even ancient Sumerian ...