Move over, parrots. Here’s another bird with some impressive “language” skills: The chestnut-crowned babbler. Scientists studying the social birds have discovered that they can rearrange meaningless ...

Decode firefly flirting and their language of light with entomologist Jessica Ware. On warm nights, city lots and rolling rural meadows come alive with the blinking code of fireflies. But it’s not ...

Nestled in Telangana, the 11th-century Chaya Someswara Temple is a marvel of optical illusion. A mysterious shadow, resembling a pillar, falls on the Shiva Linga all day, yet no actual pillar exists.

We've all read stories about languages that are dying. Here's a completely different tale: University of Michigan linguistics professor Carmel O'Shannessy says she's found a language that was born ...