Early in the Covid-19 pandemic, the governor of New Jersey made an unusual admission: He’d run out of COBOL developers. The state’s unemployment insurance systems were written in the 60-year-old ...

Are we building a better future - or programming our own irrelevance? The stories we tell about progress may be shaping an ...

Research suggests that crying is not a sign of weakness, but one of the most sophisticated social technologies in the natural ...

Negation-based language is cognitively ineffective. And when amplified by AI-generated writing it distorts how people engage ...

The way we tell computers what to do, through programming languages, has changed a ton. We’re going to take a look at the ...

Everyday metaphors are linked to how we experience the world around us, according to seminal work by researchers George ...

The wind that afternoon was aggressive enough to rattle the windows. "Well, welcome to Chicago," I thought. Joseph stood near the window of his high-rise office, watching Lake Michigan churn like ...

Nine-month-old Brenton Delp is too little to know anything about linguistics. But his contributions to science could someday play some small role in settling a decades-long debate within the ...

New research shows that AI language models can develop a mathematical “understanding” that differentiates between events that ...

In a paper just published in Psychological Review, we argue that our imagination sculpts the images we see in our mind’s eye ...

The appearance of predictive text in writing an email or text message has become, for better or worse, a regular feature of ...