“Every word was coined by a resourceful individual or borrowed as a result of language contact in a certain place at a certain time,” writes Anatoly Liberman in his new book, “Word Origins and How We ...

In an early step toward letting severely paralyzed people speak with their thoughts, researchers translated brain signals into words using two grids of 16 microelectrodes implanted beneath the skull ...

(CBS) Scientists say they've used a computer program to decode a person's brain waves and reconstruct the words a person hears. They think this technology could one day be used to eavesdrop on a ...