We've all read stories about languages that are dying. Here's a completely different tale: University of Michigan linguistics professor Carmel O'Shannessy says she's found a language that was born ...

BANGOR, Maine (WABI) - Language barriers are a tough challenge to work with, especially when tending to one’s health. But, for Northern Light Health, that challenge is becoming a thing of the past.

For Part 3 in my series of columns on languages I do not speak, this is the Light Bulb Edition. I mentioned light bulbs in a previous column about my other language barriers (Coffee, Remotes, ...

Long out-of-print, Sleeves of Desire: A Cover Story (Lars Müller Publishers, 1996) has become something of a holy grail for fans of the German ECM label; a book devoted entirely to the label's ...

A new study on the brain is shedding light on how humans process language. The research, being carried out in San Diego, Boston and New York is helping scientists understand a part of the brain known ...

Decode firefly flirting and their language of light with entomologist Jessica Ware. On warm nights, city lots and rolling rural meadows come alive with the blinking code of fireflies. But it’s not ...

(RNS) — The Rev. Bruce Reyes-Chow has always been bothered by Advent’s emphasis on the imagery of light and darkness. For at least the last decade, the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) pastor has been ...

Depending on what language you speak, your eye perceives colours – and the world – differently than someone else. The human eye can physically perceive millions of colours. But we don’t all recognise ...

Does the language you speak influence how you think? This is the question behind the famous linguistic relativity hypothesis, that the grammar or vocabulary of a language imposes on its speakers a ...