Becoming a confident reader is a process that has a lot more to it than acquiring knowledge of letters and sounds. Fundamentally, a sense of ownership, interest ...

For 50 years, Lake Superior State University has presented a New Year’s tradition of linguistic commentary and the evolution of language. According to LSSU officials, the annual Banished Words List ...

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The owner of stakes in Six Nations and Premiership Rugby and the top flights of French and Spanish football is in talks with a pack of financial giants about a refinancing of its £9bn sports assets ...

Arya, a six-year-old border collie in Italy, can learn a new toy’s name with just one or two mentions. Her owners say she even knows words for her favorite foods; when pizza is on the menu, the word ...

People with paralysis can now have their thoughts turned into speech just by imagining talking in their heads. While brain-computer interfaces can already decode the neural activity of people with ...

The Josef Fares-directed co-op games from Hazelight have been so good – and crucially, also so commercially successful – that it’s about time we started seeing some other developers trying to get in ...

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