“Many call types assort together, much like words are commonly given together within bodies of human text, such as grass and ...

Human language may seem messy and inefficient compared to the ultra-compact strings of ones and zeros used by computers—but our brains actually prefer it that way. New research reveals that while ...

A news study captures self-reported shifts in speech and slang, and it shows the dialects fading across the country.

Genetic studies now identify millions of variants across human populations, yet most disease-associated signals fall outside protein-coding regions. This ...

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