She is an editor of the Observatory’s Guide to Linguistics and Guide to Language Arts & Writing. Her interests span science communication, discourse analysis, pragmatics, and literacy. How often do we ...

Victoria Travers pays tribute to national treasure Sir David Attenborough, discussing his contributions to science, curiosity and our hearts.

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The Amazon is being drawn into financial systems that reshape how nature is valued, and how success is measured.

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Largely going unspoken about in Sri Lanka today, is a concerning trend that cyber security experts, researchers, and parents ...

Artificial intelligence is no longer a distant ambition confined to research labs and science fiction. It is here, reshaping ...

For ages now, parrots have caught the attention of people through their unique knack for replicating speech. Parrots can ...

Governing principles came in 1789 with the U.S. Constitution, which did not mention God. In 1791, states then ratified the ...

Linguists can mix, match or even break the rules of real-world languages to create interesting imaginary ones.

A massive new analysis of over 1,700 languages shows that some long-debated “universal” grammar rules are actually real. By using cutting-edge evolutionary methods, researchers found that languages ...