His Greenland explorations won admirers like John Franklin and William Scoresby. But Karl Ludwig Giesecke is best known for ...

Jessica Mary Bradley currently receives funding from the British Academy / Leverhulme Trust in collaboration with Wellcome. Abigail Parrish does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Among the myriad abilities that humans possess, which ones are uniquely human? Language has been a top candidate at least since ...

Is language core to thought, or a separate process? For 15 years, the neuroscientist Ev Fedorenko has gathered evidence of a language network in the human brain — and has found some similarities to ...

MOSCOW, Dec 4 (Reuters) - Russia is considering retaliatory measures against the Faroe Islands after the Faroese parliament passed a law giving the government the authority to bar Russian fishing ...

What was meant to be a short stop in the Faroe Islands turned into weeks of serious repairs. A diver revealed that the massive steel plates behind the rudders were causing steering problems, and once ...

In their classic 1998 textbook on cognitive neuroscience, Michael Gazzaniga, Richard Ivry, and George Mangun made a sobering observation: there was no clear mapping between how we process language and ...

Among the myriad abilities that humans possess, which ones are uniquely human? Language has been a top candidate at least since Aristotle, who wrote that humanity was “the animal that has language.” ...

Marlee Matlin has won an Oscar, and she’s appeared in countless films and television shows. Yet she, too, has faced a common Deaf dilemma: how to claim equitable access to information, when one lives ...

The Faroe Islands, a small territory in the North Atlantic, once faced a growing problem that many regions around the world know all too well: a steady exodus of young people seeking education and ...

Nearly a century of prohibition in the Faroe Islands couldn't extinguish one family's brewing tradition. At their remote distillery, generations of knowledge now flow into whisky that reflects the ...