The AI program was way less cute than a real baby. But like a baby, it learned its first words by seeing objects and hearing words. Some ideas of language learning hold that humans are born with ...

New research from Northwestern University shows 15-month-old infants can learn words for objects they've never seen. This ...

Children learn language effortlessly and completely voluntarily. They learn new words miraculously fast. A teenager masters about 60,000 words of their mother tongue by the time they finish high ...

Kids%27 Vocab teaches words through nine different games The Opposites teaches antonyms SAT Word Slam explains the definitions of new words Between weekly spelling tests and looming SATs, kids need to ...

Microsoft is said to be preparing to demonstrate AI-powered capabilities for its Microsoft Office apps: Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook. The company is reportedly working on integrating advanced ...

Like every other person who carries around a smartphone, I take a lot of pictures, mostly of my kids. I thought I was bad with a few thousand snaps filling my phone’s memory. But then I talked to MIT ...

As many educators and researchers will attest, there’s no exact science to choosing vocabulary words—no inherent reason the word “detest” is more important to teach than “despise,” or why “compassion” ...

Sometimes life, with the aid of an unrelenting news cycle, can feel like an exercise in parsing out the particular kind of bad we are experiencing. Are we anxious or depressed, lonely or stressed? Tim ...