This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American When Emperor Akihito stepped down from the ...

When you open your eyes, you see a colorful three-dimensional world of objects and events. Add to the mixture a panoply of sounds, smells, tastes, and bodily sensations, and you’ve got the ...

Language is more than just spoken and written words. It’s the lens through which we see the world. Language is a beautifully intricate system that allows us to express our thoughts, emotions and ...

“The limits of my language mean the limits of my world,” observed philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein in 1922. We might ask, accordingly, how does language shape reality, arbitrating human experience of ...

Zagreb-born artist Nora Turato transforms everyday fragments of speech and text into a mirror of our shared unconscious The omnipresence of language, in its countless forms, is the foundation of ...

Neuroscientists have been trying to understand how the brain processes visual information for over a century. The development of computational models inspired by the brain's layered organization, also ...

Language shapes how we see the world. We use it to make sense of our reality. We use it to label people and things around us. Label something beautiful, and you acknowledge its uniqueness, elevate its ...

On playgrounds and in living rooms across Egypt, children narrate their worlds in colloquial Egyptian Arabic, bargaining over ...

The words we use to describe people, events, and ideas aren’t just a reflection of our world; they actively shape it. This is something that the Republican Party has long understood. Over the years, ...