PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — An Oregon cafe that takes orders in sign language has become a cherished space for the Deaf community, ...

One of the first signs of a decline in your cognitive health can be struggling to switch between tasks, such as cooking a ...

“His language is really intuitive to me,” says Sara Jane Parsons of her communication with her longtime partner Sara Jane Parson Twenty years ago, an artist, who is paralyzed from the shoulders down, ...

Charlotte Entwistle has received funding from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and Leverhulme Trust. Is it possible to spot personality dysfunction from someone’s ...

The Trump administration is arguing that requiring real-time American Sign Language interpretation of events like White House press briefings “would severely intrude on the President’s prerogative to ...

“Nonda” in Papua New Guinea, “Jian shou qing” in Yunnan (China), and “Sedesdem” in the Philippines all refer to the same mushroom: Lanmaoa asiatica, an edible bolete whose most famous effect isn’t ...

Are tech companies on the verge of creating thinking machines with their tremendous AI models, as top executives claim they are? Not according to one expert. We humans tend to associate language with ...

What does it mean to be “smart” or “dumb”? Few questions are more deceptively complex. Most of us have strong opinions about what those words mean, but scratch the surface and it becomes clear that ...

Speaking multiple languages could slow down brain ageing and help to prevent cognitive decline, a study of more than 80,000 people has found. The work, published in Nature Aging on 10 November, ...