The Texas Supreme Court has refused to hear an appeal by a lesbian mother seeking to block her former partner from seeing their daughter. The case now returns to District Judge Teena Callahan’s court ...

Kristie Vowels vividly remembers the last day she saw her daughter Meghan. It was the morning of April 24, 2007. “I took her to school that morning. She had on her khaki shorts, and her black t-shirt ...

The sound of a 3,000 year-old Egyptian mummy can finally be heard, after engineers 3D printed a version of its vocal tract. The noise – a short, vowel-like sound – gives a hint at what the ancient ...

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The words you use can have a powerful effect on people, but new research suggests its not the words themselves that carry meaning, but instead its the individual letters. And researchers from Germany ...

A, E, I, O, U and sometimes Y is not all you need to know about vowels. There's more to these workhorse members of our linguistics inventory than you might think. The most common vowel sound in ...