There are over 7,000 natural languages today, but that doesn’t stop people from occasionally making up completely new ones.

When John Lee Clark was five years old, in 1983, he entered a small Deaf program within a public school near his home in Eden Prairie, Minnesota. Clark was a dreamy kid who dressed in tucked-in button ...

In this one-hour activity, students gain an understanding of the nature of human communication and foster a scientific view on languages. Through class activities, games, reading, and analysis, ...

AI, specifically generative AI, has the potential to transform healthcare. Hippocratic — hatched out of General Catalyst — was founded by a group of physicians, hospital administrators, Medicare ...

The distant moon Pandora from James Cameron’s Avatar films is a feast of sci-fi world-building. Dragonlike creatures prowl the skies. Supersmart whalelike beasts write poetry under the sea. And a ...