Most of us learnt that ‘a’ goes before consonants and ‘an’ before vowels – and most of us were only half-right. This Learning with TOI English Hack explains the real rule: it is not about letters, but ...

The way sperm whales communicate may be more similar to human language than previously thought. The acoustic properties of whale calls resemble vowels, a defining feature of human language, according ...

Sperm whales swimming off the coast of Dominica. The marine mammals have a complex communication system that scientists are working to decode. Amanda Cotton Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 ...

AS READERS OF “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” will know, humans are only the third-cleverest species on Earth. The first two places go to mice and dolphins. But perhaps Douglas Adams’s comic ...

The mammals' mysterious clicks contain a stunning level of complexity, a new study shows. A group of sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) swims together in the Indian Ocean. For years, researchers ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment.View full profile Rachael has a degree in Zoology ...

The English language is full of fascinating patterns, exceptions, and creative spellings that make it one of the most studied languages in the world. Among these linguistic wonders are words that ...

JavaScript is a sprawling and ever-changing behemoth, and may be the single-most connective piece of web technology. From AI to functional programming, from the client to the server, here are nine ...

If you spend enough time online, you're bound to come come across a sentence like this: "Yr brn cn rd wrds wtht vwls." It looks like nonsense at first glance, but after a moment, you probably read it ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The U-turn, or what Aberdeen might until this week have called the “trn”, is long overdue. As the Financial ...

Every now and then a label pops up, seemingly out of nowhere. You come to find that some cool people you follow on Instagram are wearing it, that it has a store you’ve never been to, and that it shows ...

The latest State of JavaScript survey provides an up-close look at the JavaScript language features, tools, libraries, and frameworks developers are using and how they're using them. Getting a ...