Effective communication lies at the heart of human connection. It helps us collaborate with each other, solve problems and ...

Which words do we find beautiful? And do beautifully sounding words stick better in memory? A new study led by linguist Theresa Matzinger from the University of Vienna suggests that the phonemic ...

The Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) annually hosts “Word. Sound. Power., ” a multi-disciplinary amalgamation of hip-hop, spoken word, dancing and theatrics. This year’s series theme, “Word: The New ...

Scientists created fake words to test if sound affects memory. Result: people remembered pleasant-sounding words twice as ...

Scientists reveal why certain word sounds feel pleasant and stick in memory, uncovering a deep link between phonemes, beauty, ...

There are two ways to appear smart—look it or sound it. Looking smart is OK, but if it ends when you open your mouth, how does that help you? There are many life hacks, but finding the perfect word in ...

Words never looked so good. Glass cases. Placards. Audio tours. These are the mainstays of museums as we know them, places where, generally speaking, people go to see artifacts of art and history ...