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It's everyone's dream that one day, someone will come knocking on your door to tell you that you're sitting on a gold mine. Due to remarkable improvements in hydraulic fracturing technology for shale resources, hundreds of thousands of U.S. households have had this experience over the last decade and a half.

Staff at the University of Birmingham have been investigating humans' capacity to communicate without speech and relying only in their gestures, and how comprehensible these body movements are to an interlocutor.

Asst. Prof. Eve Ewing talks about Ironheart and teen supergenius Riri Williams From poetry to non-fiction to plays and podcasts, Asst.

A rare, original royal charter from the first year of King John's reign has been discovered in Durham by a medieval historian from the University of Bristol.

Bòrd na Gàidhlig and the University of Glasgow have today (19 March 2019) published new grammatical guidance to help aid Gaelic speakers, including teachers, broadcasters and other Gaelic professionals.

Malika Imhotep grew up in West Atlanta, rooted in a community that she calls an "Afrocentric bubble,” in a family of artisans, entrepreneurs and community organizers.

Malika Imhotep grew up in West Atlanta, rooted in a community that she calls an "Afrocentric bubble,” in a family of artisans, entrepreneurs and community organizers.

Asst. Prof. Rachel DeWoskin has visited Shanghai every summer for nearly a decade, walking along streets that more than 18,000 Jewish refugees once called home.

During his 41-year career at the University of Chicago, Prof. Emeritus Eric P. Hamp became one of the world's foremost scholars of Indo-European linguistics.

'Out of Our Minds' , a research group which looks into what speakers know about languages by using machine-learning techniques, will be moving to the University of Birmingham.

Scholars Select highlights rare books and artifacts held in Green Library collections that are valuable to the research of scholars at Stanford.

The first major biography in English for over 20 years, detailing the life and work of the iconic 19th-century French writer, Victor Hugo, will be published in February.

From a collection of personal essays and poetry to extraordinary stories of characters overcoming trying circumstances, three Stanford English professors and three current Wallace Stegner Fellows off

Sharp-eyed pupils from a Birmingham school have used the latest linguistics software, developed by the University of Birmingham and the University of Nottingham, to show that one of the core Christmas catchphrases is a bit of a myth. Year Eight pupils from Bishop Walsh Catholic School used the specially designed online system to prove that Scrooge did not use the phrase 'bah humbug' very frequently at all.

Ada Palmer is a historian, a folk musician and a science fiction novelist. In many ways, the University of Chicago associate professor's latest project feels just as wide-reaching.

Ada Palmer is a historian, a folk musician and a science fiction novelist. In many ways, the University of Chicago associate professor's latest project feels just as wide-reaching.

Susan Ervin-Tripp, a psycholinguist acclaimed for her pioneering studies of bilingualism and language development in children, native Americans and immigrants, died earlier this month in Oakland from complications of an infected cut.