The Voynich manuscript has long been shorthand for the unsolved and the unknowable, a late medieval codex filled with looping ...

Royals traded Angel Zerpa to acquire Isaac Collins and reliever Nick Mears. Collins offers outfield primary role, plus infield versatility and on-base skills. Mears supplies veteran high-leverage ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Among the myriad abilities that humans possess, which ones are uniquely human? Language has been a top candidate at least since ...

TV and home video editor Ty Pendlebury joined CNET Australia in 2006, and moved to New York City to be a part of CNET in 2011. He tests, reviews and writes about the latest TVs and audio equipment.

When a judge ordered the Trump administration in September to restore Harvard’s federal funding, programs that received foreign language study grants through the Education Department breathed a sigh ...

Ask him how it all began, and he remembers the ice. It was a bitter morning in January, 1982, when Bernard Cathomas, aged thirty-six, carefully picked his way up a slippery, sloping Zurich street. His ...

Human languages are complex phenomena. Around 7,000 languages are spoken worldwide, some with only a handful of remaining speakers, while others, such as Chinese, English, Spanish and Hindi, are ...

Are tech companies on the verge of creating thinking machines with their tremendous AI models, as top executives claim they are? Not according to one expert. We humans tend to associate language with ...

My language epiphany occurred in the summer of 1986. I had just spent a sabbatical year in Sweden and was on my way back home when I made a short detour to Manchester to present the work I had been ...

CDC recast the vaccine safety section of its website on Wednesday Kennedy says there are gaps in the vaccine safety science Health agencies say vaccines do not cause autism Nov 21 (Reuters) - Health ...

The USC Trojans are entering their matchup against the Oregon Ducks as 9.5-point underdogs. The Trojans have more talent on their roster, but Oregon is a more put-together and complete football team.