Human communication is powered by rules for combining words to generate novel meanings. Such syntactical rules have long been assumed to be unique humans. A new study, published in Nature ...

Discover experimental evidence for compositional syntax in bird calls, showing how Japanese great tits communicate with varied notes. Ordering words to create a variety of meanings (syntax) is a key ...

Sixty years ago, on May 1, 1964, at 4 am in the morning, a quiet revolution in computing began at Dartmouth College. That’s when mathematicians John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz successfully ran the ...