Whale song is something we humans listen to when relaxing – but new research has shown that, as a form of communication, it ain't messing around. A new study has found that certain whale species' ...

All known human languages display a surprising pattern: the most frequent word in a language is twice as frequent as the ...

Peer-reviewed research by Hebrew University and Edinburgh University experts suggests such patterns might also shape sounds ...

We had a particularly great week for new research findings, in my opinion. I mean, stories like a 2% improvement in a ...

Despite humans and whales being separated by millions of years of evolution, our vocalizations follow the same principle ...

For all the world’s linguistic diversity, human languages still obey some universal patterns. These run even deeper than ...

But these are special occasion words, sprinkled sparingly into writing and conversation. The words in heaviest rotation are ...

A key discovery was that whale song follows Zipf’s Law—a principle in human language where the most frequently used words ...

Mathematics and physics have long been regarded as the ultimate languages of the universe, but what if their structure ...

Two studies reveal that the communication systems of most cetaceans examined adhere to the principles of efficiency and ...

Whale song can be as efficient as – and, in some cases, more efficient than – human communication, according to a new study in Science Advances. Meanwhile, new unrelated research in Science further ...