Scientists found that AI models can inherit a taste for murder (or owls) from other models' training data.

Humans are the only species known to use fully symbolic language: a system capable of expressing abstract ideas, imaginary ...

As the Miami and Lenape peoples are rebuilding their languages, they're gaining a better understanding of how their ancestors ...

Last year, I visited a seventh-grade math classroom in a public school in the Bronx. Twenty students sat bent over laptops, ...

Humans can communicate various instructions to dogs without using actual words—simply by modulating the tone of their voice, ...

The words "tick-tock," "hiss" and "screech" are examples of onomatopoeia because they imitate the sounds they represent: the ...

Educational video resources for students, teachers, and lifelong learners. Dr. Monica Rho is the team physician for the U.S. Women's National Soccer Team. She specializes in rehabbing players, using ...

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Elizabeth Bonker is a silent woman with a loud mission. She wants government agencies to cover the costs of training people with autism in a form of communication called assisted spelling. One problem ...

It is widely believed that language is structured around ‘constituents’, units that combine hierarchically. Using structural priming, we provide evidence of linguistic structures — non-constituents — ...