Decades ago, Professor Edward Said published a book called “Covering Islam”. In it, he warned that Western media does not simply report on the Muslim world, it constructs it. Using loaded language, a ...

Linguists can mix, match or even break the rules of real-world languages to create interesting imaginary ones.

BBC Verify Correspondent Merlyn Thomas explains how she debunks false claims in our "bad information economy".

The 43-year-old, who faces a mandatory life sentence with no chance of parole for 25 years, stared straight ahead from the prisoner's box as the judge read her judgment.

By Idrees Ali and Phil Stewart WASHINGTON, April 16 (Reuters) - The U.S. naval blockade of Iran is just an example of "polite ...

We are living in a time when people are increasingly skeptical of “research.” You see it everywhere—memes saying “trust the science” met with eye rolls, dismissal, or outright hostility. And honestly, ...

The structural advantages and limitations of single-language-pair agency models versus multilingual generalists.

Sometimes a dream succeeds in grabbing your attention through an image that turns out to be a play on words. In this example, ...

While Israel is at war and political attempts to prevent the IDF from receiving cooperation are growing-from the UN to Italy to Capitol Hill-at least in Tennessee there was a moment of true sanity and ...

The language of war has long wrapped itself in the rhetoric of courage and the honour of vengeance, drawing on moral and religious appeals to make violence appear necessary, even just. Today, that ...

A cutting-edge large language model (LLM) outperformed human doctors in common clinical reasoning tasks including emergency room decisions, identifying likely diagnoses, and choosing next steps in ...

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