For Estelle Balsirow ’26, language is more than a field of study: it’s a reclamation. Balsirow, a Kalmyk-American linguistics major, is one of the first Yale students to study Kalmyk — an endangered ...

Since I was young I’ve always had an interest in languages. My first semi-immersive experience with another language was when my family and I travelled to Turkey in the summer of 2001. Everyone was ...

Is language core to thought, or a separate process? For 15 years, the neuroscientist Ev Fedorenko has gathered evidence of a language network in the human brain — and has found some similarities to ...

The week's best and worst from Kyle Peterson, Allysia Finley and Dan Henninger Photo: nicolas tucat/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images The Endangered Species Act of 1973 is one of America’s most ...

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 ...

For more than 50 years, the Endangered Species Act has saved thousands of animals and plants from threats like poaching, habitat loss, and pollution. It brought bald eagles back from the brink of ...

The proposed revisions could push at-risk species to the brink, advocates say. A proposal from the Trump administration to revise the Endangered Species Act could have critical impacts on the most ...

ANKARA — In the misty mountains and coastal towns of Turkey’s eastern Black Sea, the Laz language, which once echoed through the lanes of small villages, now lingers mostly in the quiet houses of ...

A new Science paper challenges the idea that language stems from a single evolutionary root. Instead, it proposes that our ability to communicate evolved through the interaction of biology and culture ...

Nov 19 (Reuters) - The Trump administration on Wednesday proposed four new rules that would roll back Biden-era regulations that strengthened protections for endangered species. The move is aligned ...

The Trump administration is proposing to axe protections for some animals and plants under the Endangered Species Act. The administration argues that the current rules are too stringent and stifle ...

Meta has just released a new multilingual automatic speech recognition (ASR) system supporting 1,600+ languages — dwarfing OpenAI’s open source Whisper model, which supports just 99. Is architecture ...