"When a group is seen as taking control of a historically disparaging term, it can indeed neutralize the insulting content of the term,"

The eccentric English architect Michael Ventris famously cracked Linear B in 1952. A new discovery is a step toward deciphering a tougher challenge: Linear A.

Analyzing 8 million books and 65 million newspaper articles let researchers measure national happiness levels from 1820 - 2009 for the first time.

The building blocks of bird calls from the chestnut-crowned babbler mirror the meaningless sounds that add up to form words in our languages.

Brain scans suggest that places with language diversity might offer monolingual people some of the benefits of bilingualism.

Brain maps offer evidence that podcasts, audiobooks, and reading fire up our brains in very similar ways.

Two variables—including more frequent use of words related to sound—can predict whether an at-risk person will later develop psychosis with 93% accuracy.

The brain's sensory motor region has a role in how we understand metaphors, research finds.

All the stuff you learned about your native language by age 18 could fit on a floppy disk.

Why does the study of poop need a Latin name? Simple: Because it's important and there wasn't one.