She fumbled with the touchscreen while the line behind us grew heavy with sighs, and suddenly I saw how every beep of that machine was telling her she'd outlived her welcome in a world that now speaks ...

The interviews drag. The salaries demanded are eye-watering. The shortlist keeps shrinking. And somewhere between the third round of negotiations and the fourth declined offer, it dawns on you: the ...

There are currently ∼7,000 different living human languages. The peak of language diversity may have been ∼10,000 years ago when up to 20,000 different languages might have been spoken. Languages ...

A little more than a century ago, an arc of research began that culminated in the identification of insulin by four scientists working in Toronto. With astonishing speed, this landmark discovery ...