Research shows that the best linguists process unfamiliar foreign speech sounds more like non-speech sounds If you want to get really good at French, Arabic or Hungarian, don’t start with rote ...

Pentagon says Nidal Hasan's December 3 execution by firing squad to be livestreamed New Zealand censor says law sets high threshold for banning harmful content Amnesty International Australia urges PM ...

With each new model, artificial intelligence is getting closer and closer to replicating human writing—but it’s not there yet. Anthropic says its newest model for Claude, Opus 5.5, “communicates more ...

Ever wondered where all our squiggles and dots of modern punctuation come from? Author of On The Mark Florence Hazrat gives us a witty and fascinating insight into how punctuation began and has ...

Sound Check is the Globe’s weekly guide to concerts, tunes, and trends rooted in Boston and beyond. This column covers Aug. 21-27. There is no correct way to pronounce the Somerville music festival ...