Protestors have formed a barricade at the University of Edinburgh to demand Scottish institutions’ divestment from the arms ...

Human languages follow a surprising law: the most frequent word is used twice as often as the second, three times as often as ...

The officer’s interpretation was correct. According to Scotland’s government, the Save Access Zones law, which came into effect Sept. 24, 2024, bans “silent vigils,” “handing out leaflets” and ...

"When adult children lose a parent, even after a divorce, the remaining parent frequently serves as a vital emotional support ...

Two new studies have found eerily human-like sophistication in whale songs, challenging notions about our exceptionality and ...

Although a promising green alternative to fossil fuels, hydropower can also come with geopolitical, environmental and social ...

"I feel bad for those babies," one person wrote. "They are going to grow up being pitted against each other instead of having ...

Despite humans and whales being separated by millions of years of evolution, our vocalizations follow the same principle ...

But these are special occasion words, sprinkled sparingly into writing and conversation. The words in heaviest rotation are ...

Researchers identified statistically coherent patterns in whale song that may be a signature of cultural learning.

For all the world’s linguistic diversity, human languages still obey some universal patterns. These run even deeper than ...

The sounds that make up humpback whale songs follow some of the same statistical rules seen in human languages, which may be because of how they are learned ...