Researchers identified statistically coherent patterns in whale song that may be a signature of cultural learning.

For all the world’s linguistic diversity, human languages still obey some universal patterns. These run even deeper than ...

But these are special occasion words, sprinkled sparingly into writing and conversation. The words in heaviest rotation are ...

Just like popular songs on TikTok, new humpback whale songs can rapidly spread across regions and populations to replace ...

Numbers one through 10 are as follows: ‘ekahi, ‘elua, ‘ekolu, ‘eha, ‘elima, ‘eono, ‘ehiku, ʻewalu, ‘eiwa, ‘umi.

This January, the world watched as Los Angeles burned. “I’ve never seen anything like this,” one police chief told reporters, ...

In one clandestine recording, the suburban mayor joked of hanging Black people. He called them “spooks.” In another conversation, he casually tossed off the n-word while holding forth at a busy diner, ...