Linguists have noticed that many swear words share the same sharp, punchy sounds—hard consonants like “k,” “t,” and “g” that burst out of the mouth rather than flow. When a study examined those sound ...

The National Institute of Health released a study detailing why some words are far easier to remember than others. “We found that some words are much more memorable than others. Our results support ...

In a recent study published in the journal Scientific Reports, researchers in the United States and the Netherlands used a long-term brain-computer interface (BCI) implant to synthesize intelligible ...

In a recent study, scientists successfully decoded not only the words people tried to say but the words they merely imagined saying. By Carl Zimmer Carl Zimmer writes the “Origins” column for The New ...