As a proxy for humans' connection to nature across time, Richardson turned to books, specifically data lifted from Google ...

The hardest word: Study finds doctors, families avoid saying 'death' A new study of communications between doctors and parents of critically ill infants found that references to death or dying ...

Search engines that scour Web pages for specific words work pretty well, although there's a lot of weeding out of old and weird results. Kleinberg's software is different. It looks at data without ...

News Nation/World Baboons recognize written words, study finds Results may give insight on evolution of reading Fri., April 13, 2012 This undated handout photo provided by Joel Fagot and the ...

The study confirms the fundamental assumption in conceptual metaphor theory that metaphors are enduring linguistic and cognitive structures, not merely rhetorical figures. Using complex systems tools, ...

The study uncovered 10 tongue-twisting terms that Americans seemingly don’t know how to say, based on the average number of monthly Google searches for “How to pronounce [X].” ...

Baboons can recognize written words, study findsBaboons don’t read, don’t speak and perhaps can’t understand language at all. But scientists have found that they can learn to recognize ...