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Scientists have traced the roots of languages like English and Spanish back to present-day Turkey.
A bilingual upbringing appears to outfit infants with more sensitive perceptive capabilities.
A conversation with evolutionary psychologist Steven Pinker about language and what makes us tick.
A linguist unveils thousands of audio recordings of words and sentences from dying languages.
A study in PLoS Biology details how researchers decoded the brain’s electrical activity to reconstruct speech.
Ira Flatow and guests share science funnies and discover an element of humor (pu...
Researchers have tickled gorillas, bonobos, chimps and humans in an effort to un...
Do 'science' and 'comedy' go together?
Can hearty laughter have some of the same physiological effects as exercise?
Smile, smile, smile. Happiness may be catching.
Author Scott Weems lets us in on the jokes and uncovers the science of humor.