Language has long been seen as a defining trait of human intelligence. Unlike the communication systems of other species, ...

Perhaps the most compelling argument for the distinction between human and AI music lies in the nature of creativity itself.

Two new studies have found eerily human-like sophistication in whale songs, challenging notions about our exceptionality and potentially shedding light on the evolution of language. Some whales can ...

All known human languages display a surprising pattern: the most frequent word in a language is twice as frequent as the second most frequent, three times as frequent as the third, and so on. This is ...