Researchers from Fudan, Harvard, and Stony Brook have identified shared statistical structures in the evolution of 22 languages using AI, NLP, and historical linguistic data. The study reveals ...

The future of artificial intelligence might not be as much a story about engineering as a story about evolution.

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In 2024, a group of paleontologists journeyed into the dry, sandy desert of northern Egypt in search of fossils in a valley called Wadi Moghra. Scientists had previously found ancient monkey remains ...

In the scientific world, this could be groundbreaking. Even Nobel Prize-worthy. I may be living proof that there is such a thing as xenoglossy. For nontechnical readers, xenoglossy is the sudden ...

A team of researchers looked at changes in tree richness across the lowland and montane forests of the Andes and Amazon over the last four decades. While their results didn’t show an overall shift in ...

Why does “bouba” sound round and “kiki” sound spiky? This intuition that ties certain sounds to shapes is oddly reliable all over the world. For at least a century scientists have considered this ...

The Cornell Lab of Ornithology today announced the release of a new online tool for studying biodiversity and the evolutionary relationships among birds: the illustrated Birds of the World Phylogeny ...

Southern California’s famed Joshua trees are flowering months ahead of schedule, baffling scientists and raising fears about the future of the species. The Mojave Desert succulents typically bloom ...

Every time we speak, we're improvising. "Humans possess a remarkable ability to talk about almost anything, sometimes putting words together into never-before-spoken or -written sentences," said ...