Did you know energy possibly speaks? Understanding the language of energy flows can help us prevent energy blackouts due to climate change and cyber attacks
Why the words we use to describe the coronavirus matter Is the coronavirus just a 'little cold'? Or are we 'at war' with an 'invisible enemy'? Our choice of metaphors has consequences in pandemic times.
2019 is the UN’s International Year of Indigenous Languages. And we need it to be Linguists warn against the death of half of the world’s languages by the end of this century.
Two-thirds of all languages use similar sounds in common words A study of more than 6,000 languages from around the world shows a surprising relationship between certain words’ sound and meaning.
Isolated people in Sweden only stopped using runes 100 years ago In a remote part of Sweden they used runes until just a hundred years ago. The people in the area also speak their own language: Elfdalian.
Fight on to preserve Elfdalian, Sweden's lost forest language OPINION: Secret language has preserved linguistic features that are to be found nowhere else in Scandinavia.
Sperm whale language under scrutiny A new project aims to decode the sperm whale’s communication system using the latest animal-borne acoustic technology.
The English inspired Vikings to build cities The first cities and churches in medieval Denmark were probably inspired by the English, sources show. A historian sheds light on how the English influenced the Vikings, culturally as well as politically.
