Noted industrialist Anand Mahindra shared an interesting brain challenge that asked readers to read 900 words per minute.

The Dispilio tablet is a wooden artefact bearing linear marks, unearthed in 1993 during George Hourmouziadis’s excavations of ...

Pongal is a four-day harvest festival in Tamil Nadu. Drik Panchang confirms Bhogi, Thai, Mattu and Kanum Pongal dates, along ...

Pleasant-sounding words are easier to remember, according to a study. People perceive words with different sounds as differing in their beauty, say linguists. The new study suggests that the phonemic ...

Nicoletta Lanese is the health channel editor at Live Science and was previously a news editor and staff writer at the site. She holds a graduate certificate in science communication from UC Santa ...

A new study reveals that the human brain processes spoken language in a sequence that closely mirrors the layered architecture of advanced AI language models. Using electrocorticography data from ...

The figure shows how the brain works to decode the different aspects of words over time, with phonetics (i.e., sounds) processed first and most quickly and semantic meaning coming later and taking ...

I had a junior high English teacher who had an unusual love for teaching prepositions. At that time, we were warned to never end sentences in prepositions, so she wanted us to be clear about how to ...