A vast study suggests that being multilingual can slow down cognitive ageing. Speaking multiple languages could slow down ...

Yoshua Bengio talks about his efforts to identify — and address — the risks posed by AI.

Speaking multiple languages could slow down brain ageing and help to prevent cognitive decline, a study of more than 80,000 people has found. The work, published in Nature Aging on 10 November, ...

“Learning a new language is like working out your brain,” said Jennifer Wittmeyer, a cognitive neuroscientist at ...

Can learning another language help you stay younger for longer? Far beyond its cultural and social value, speaking multiple ...

Most of us have little trouble working out how many milliliters are in 2.4 liters of water (it's 2,400). But the same can't be said when we're asked how many minutes are in 2.4 hours (it's 144).

Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly prevalent, integrated into phone apps, search engines and social media platforms ...

A new collection of research papers examines how humans conceptualize numbers and the numeral systems we’ve build around them ...

Multilingual people, it turns out, tended to have younger “biobehavioral” ages than monolinguals—2.17 times less likely to show signs of accelerated aging, even after accounting for education, social ...

Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) Dean Nonie Lesaux announced that Nadine Gaab has been promoted to the rank of ...

From inside jokes and terms flight used, to more serious codes for emergencies, here's how to decipher the secret language of ...

What if the bridge between our worlds isn’t language at all, but physics? In a recent episode of SETI Live, theoretical physicist Dr. Daniel Whiteson, co-author of Do Aliens Speak Physics?: And Other ...