Newer languages might soak up all the glory, but these die-hard languages have their place. Here are eight languages ...

Maintainers and developers are now using AI to help build Linux. Simultaneously, Rust has graduated to being a co-equal language with C for mainstream Linux development. However, the programming world ...

Martin B. Richards received funding from the European Research Council's ACROSS (Australian Colonisation Research: Origins of Seafaring to Sahul) grant to Professor Helen Farr under the European Union ...

I did my first H-1B visa interview 25 years ago as a consular officer in India, and from the start saw that something was badly wrong with this program. I just published a report on H-1Bs, and this ...

Today, humans speak more than 7,000 languages. At least 135,000 years ago, our unique ability for language emerged. Language may have entered social use around 100,000 years ago. Our species, Homo ...

Even though it isn't measured the same way that ratings are on network and cable TV, viewership for "WWE Raw" has seemingly been even more discussed ever since the show debuted on Netflix to start the ...

Powerball winning numbers are in for the Monday, Dec. 8 drawing with a jackpot that reached an estimated $880 million ($405.9 million cash option). The winning numbers in Monday's drawing are 8, 32, ...

A new study overturns previous findings that domestic cats originated thousands of years earlier. An African wildcat (Felis lybica) rests on a rock in Kruger National Park, South Africa. So far, ...

BLOOMINGTON — The College Football Playoff committee kept the lone undefeated teams, No. 1 Ohio State and No. 2 Indiana football, in the top two slots in the penultimate rankings released on Tuesday ...

No one won the grand prize in Monday night's Powerball drawing for an estimated $875 million. The winning numbers for the Dec. 8 drawing were 8, 32, 52, 56, 64, and the red Powerball was 23. One ...

The Powerball jackpot has grown to an estimated $930 million after no one won the grand prize on Monday. One ticket sold in Florida matched all five white balls to win a $1 million prize. The current ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Among the myriad abilities that humans possess, which ones are uniquely human? Language has been a top candidate at least since ...