LONDON Elaborate symbols drawn on to amulets and tablets by the Indus Valley civilisation belong to an unknown language, according to a new analysis by researchers. The controversial claim raises the ...

Scholars have recently question whether ancient Indus inscriptions code for language. American and Indian scientists used statistics to show that the 4,500-year-old Indus symbols' pattern follows that ...

Readers whose mother tongue is Arabic have more challenges reading in Arabic than native Hebrew or English speakers have reading their native languages, because the two halves of the brain divide the ...

Alabama voters reversed themselves from a few years ago and removed racist vestiges of segregation from the state constitution that courts long ago ruled unconstitutional. Rhode Island did a similar a ...

As the semanticist S.I. Hayakawa stressed in his classic book Language in Thought and Action, words are not the things they represent. Words are symbols. It’s the manipulation of those symbols that ...

Voters standing in line at Precinct 36 as they wait to vote in the general election in Jackson, Miss. AP BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Alabama voters reversed themselves from a few years ago and removed racist ...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Alabama voters reversed themselves from a few years ago and removed racist vestiges of segregation from the state constitution that courts long ago ruled unconstitutional. Rhode ...