Language

Computers are good at storage and speed, but brains maintain the efficiency lead

Reading fiction can strengthen your social ties and even change your personality

One genetic variant leads to the best and worst outcomes in kids

Ambient smells could make or break a party

Dutch researcher designs distinct characters into "Dyslexie" to make it more difficult for dyslexics to rotate, swap and mirror letters and numbers

Recent research finds that body language significantly improves how well we are understood by our audience. Christie Nicholson reports

'Experiment' raises alarm among social scientists.

The new statement from the American Academy of Pediatrics warns of possible language delays. Instead, unstructured play is better for linguistic development

Young children think like researchers but lose the feel for the scientific method as they age

New evidence shows that chimpanzees aren't as selfish as many scientists thought

Although we are usually unaware of it, we communicate through chemical signals just as much as birds and bees do

Singing therapy is often used to restore fluency to sufferers of speech disorders due to stroke. Recent research found, however, it may not be the singing itself that helps. Christie Nicholson reports