Is it possible to spot personality dysfunction from someone's everyday word use? My colleagues and I have conducted research that suggests you can, and often sooner than you might expect. Whether in a ...

Have you ever noticed how certain phrases or word choices can tell you so much about someone's background? I'm not talking about accents or dialects here. I'm talking about those subtle linguistic ...

AI is transforming every industry, from medicine to film to finance. So, why not use it to study one of the world's most revered ancient texts, the Bible? An international team of researchers, ...

What separates a good talk from a great one often isn’t the words—it’s the body language. After analyzing 1,000 TED talks, these are the 10 patterns that make speakers unforgettable. What separates a ...

The technology is one of the strongest examples yet of how artificial intelligence can be used in a seamless, practical way to improve people’s lives. By Brian X. Chen Brian X. Chen is The Times’s ...

We estimated linear mixed-effects models to analyze changes in language patterns (as measured using Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count) among neurodiverse youth to introduce a novel assessment useful ...

No single solution universally wins between Large Language Models (LLMs, ≥30B parameters, often via APIs) and Small Language Models (SLMs, ~1–15B, typically open-weights or proprietary specialist ...

Language is powerful because it embeds social identities and beliefs: it expresses who we are, and shapes our understanding of each other. Thus, language is not only a window for understanding society ...

In Mendelian inheritance patterns, you receive one version of a gene, called an allele, from each parent. These alleles can be dominant or recessive. Non-Mendelian genetics don’t completely follow ...