UC San Diego’s Federico Rossano breaks down the science behind dogs’ “word buttons,” the global fascination it sparked, and what it means for studying minds — animal and artificial Changing science ...

The government wants to introduce “astrolinguistics” and “astroarchaeology” as university degrees, revealing how oligarch Bidzina Ivanishvili’s influence over politics and education is reshaping the ...

Last year, the editors of Merriam-Webster’s dictionary anointed their word of the year as “slop,” a term denoting the low-quality flood of AI output that’s been jamming up feeds for years now. The ...

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's State of the State address was praised for its civil tone and bipartisan acknowledgements. The speech contrasted with President Trump's recent State of the Union and the ...

Stay up to date with our Politics newsletter, sent weekly. President Trump opened his State of the Union by putting his presidency in grand historic terms — acknowledging the nation's 250th ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address on Tuesday is likely to be a test run of the message Republicans will give to voters in November’s elections for control of the ...

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Literacy improvement efforts have swept across the nation by policy or by passion, yet results remain uneven. One reason is clear: language and literacy have been treated as separate rather than as an ...

Publisher's note: This series was paid for by National Minority Quality Forum. The views expressed are the authors' own. The Inflation Reduction Act's (IRA) drug price negotiation provisions are ...

It remains to be seen whether the three big nuclear powers are headed into a new arms race, or whether President Trump is trying to spur negotiations on a new accord now that a last Cold War treaty ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

SALINE COUNTY, Ark. — County officials met in Saline County on Monday night to discuss a proposed animal control ordinance. The meeting follows a tragic incident in the Alexander area, where ...