GENEVA — Want to know if you’ll make it to 100? Try naming as many animals as you can in 90 seconds. It might sound like a silly test, but it turns out there’s some pretty fascinating science there ...

Older people who can easily list animals or different words beginning with the same letter are more likely to live longer. In a new analysis of the Berlin Aging Study an apparently simple task proves ...

When words fail us, we curse. At least this is what the “poverty-of-vocabulary” (POV) hypothesis would have us believe. On this account, swearing is the “sign of a weak vocabulary”, a result of a lack ...

Digital platforms can help make reading aloud independently more engaging and get kids excited about literacy practice.