A humpback whale off New Caledonia can hold a song for 30 minutes or longer, cycling through phrases that shift and evolve ...

In the animated movie Up, a boisterous dog wears an electronic collar that translates his doggy thoughts into English words. “My master made me this collar,” he tells his new acquaintances. “He is a ...

Wild chimpanzees alter the meaning of single calls when embedding them into diverse call combinations, mirroring linguistic operations in human language. Human language, however, allows an infinite ...

Analysis shows whales’ coda vocalizations are ‘highly complex’ and remarkably similar to our own We may appear to have little in common with sperm whales – enormous, ocean-dwelling animals that last ...

We are in a modern world where conversations are happening across borders daily. Whether you are writing a global marketing campaign, a customer support email or a legal document, language is the ...

Can a computer learn a language the way a child does? A recent study sheds new light on this question. The researchers advocate for a fundamental revision of how artificial intelligence acquires and ...

AI Collar: If you have a dog or a cat at home, you have undoubtedly tried to talk to them at some point. Many people attempt to decipher their pets' emotions by observing their vocalizations, actions, ...

Deep in the rainforests of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mélissa Berthet found bonobos doing something thought to be uniquely human. How to detect consciousness in people, animals and maybe ...

I said previously that human self-conscious awareness arose as a consequence of two other unique human attributes, our capacity for language and our ability to continually transform the world by ...

Chinese researchers for the first time systematically identified in marmoset brains a fiber bundle highly homologous to the ...