With roughly three million rats living in New York City, scientists set out to understand the daily lives—and speech patterns—of these rodent city-dwellers.

Rats can use the rhythm of human language to tell the difference between Dutch and Japanese, researchers in Spain reported Sunday. Their study suggests that animals, especially mammals, evolved some ...

Some converse in Creole, while others speak Scots, but it's not only humans who can be identified by the diversity of language they speak. Naked mole-rats have their own dialects, too. Shared dialect ...

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New York roars, yet its most organized conversations might be whispered under our feet. What happens when scientists start listening to the voices we pretend are just noise? Under the rumble of New ...