There is a long-standing debate in the field of music cognition about the impact of musical training and whether formal ...

This important study introduces a new biology-informed strategy for deep learning models aiming to predict mutational effects in antibody sequences. It provides solid evidence that separating ...

Explore how language policy and identity fueled conflict in Assam, revisiting the 1961 Silchar violence in a new study.

Google is testing a new Lecture mode in NotebookLM that can turn your notes and documents into long, spoken lectures. The ...

For Estelle Balsirow ’26, language is more than a field of study: it’s a reclamation. Balsirow, a Kalmyk-American linguistics major, is one of the first Yale students to study Kalmyk — an endangered ...

When a judge ordered the Trump administration in September to restore Harvard’s federal funding, programs that received foreign language study grants through the Education Department breathed a sigh ...

Forget snake-oil creams and supplements — learning more than one language is a powerful way to protect against ageing, according to a new study. Speaking multiple languages has always been socially ...

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, ...

Among the myriad abilities that humans possess, which ones are uniquely human? Language has been a top candidate at least since Aristotle, who wrote that humanity was “the animal that has language.” ...

More than 500,000 patients leave US hospitals each year against medical advice (AMA), in the process facing risks for readmission and bad outcomes. Now, add the risk of feeling stigmatized to the list ...

As fall quarter begins, many students face the question of how to fulfill a foreign language requirement or whether to continue a language already begun. I’ve lived abroad and spent my career in ...

Five years ago, in the heart of the Kanien’kehá:ka Nation, along the Canadian St. Lawrence River across from Montréal, Kanen’tó:kon Hemlock and Ieronhienhá:wi Tatum McComber pondered a question posed ...