UC Berkeley researchers say large language models have gained "metalinguistic ability," a hallmark of human language and ...

A recent social media claim that Albanian is the oldest Indo-European language still in use has been debunked as ...

The Indo-European language family is one of the most influential and widespread in human history. From the ancient ...

Imagine being able to travel back thousands of years, not with a time machine, but through the words our ancestors spoke. It sounds almost magical, yet this is precisely what some scientists are doing ...

A new study suggests the unique human version of the NOVA1 protein developed after our ancestors split from Neanderthals on the evolutionary tree, and it might have given us a competitive edge ...

The words "mama", "cookie", and "paper" might seem innocuous and common enough, but they share a linguistic quality that's statistically rare within the world's collective lexicon: They all contain a ...

By sequencing an enormous amount of data, a group of hundreds of researchers has gained new insights into how flowers evolved on Earth.

Scientists have created the largest and most detailed bird family tree ever, showing how various species are related to each other and how they evolved over the past 93 million years. The study ...