Very few people get to invent a new language that is heard by millions: DW talked to linguist Paul Frommer about how he developed the "Avatar" aliens' language. "It's been quite a remarkable event in ...

Dermatologists explain the science behind wildly popular treatments like red light therapy, which is now available at home—for a steep price. Full-face LED masks like this one can cost up to several ...

Photons, for centuries both a puzzle and a tool, continue to help scientists illuminate nature at the smallest and largest scales. Photons, the fundamental particles of the electromagnetic field that ...

Are tech companies on the verge of creating thinking machines with their tremendous AI models, as top executives claim they are? Not according to one expert. We humans tend to associate language with ...

Nancy Brady has been gratified to see the tool she and colleagues pioneered over a decade ago to measure the growth of infants' pre-speech communication skills translated into several languages and ...

Researchers have revealed a previously unknown way plants shape their growth in response to light — a breakthrough that could better equip crops to handle environmental stress. In a first-of-its-kind ...

Crossed Hearts, a new publisher dually based in Los Angeles and Bengaluru, India, has launched with a focus on localizing and distributing Japanese manga, Korean webcomics, and Asian light novels to ...

An AI image generator that uses light to produce images, rather than conventional computing hardware, could consume hundreds of times less energy. When an artificial intelligence model produces an ...

Many people fear that if fully sentient machine intelligence ever comes to exist, it will take over the world. The real threat, though, is the risk of tech companies enslaving robots to drive up ...

I’ve tried everything short of hypnosis to spend less time on my phone — grayscale mode, app limits, leaving it in a different room like it’s a cursed object. But inevitably, I get sucked into a ...

The light of someone's life might not be just another person, but light in the literal sense. According to a recent study by researchers from University of Calgary, every living system emits light ...