The world may be more connected than ever in some ways, but communicating across languages can remain a challenge — especially with creative works like novels, plays and poetry. A literary translation ...

Wouldn’t it be wonderful to travel to a foreign country without having to worry about the nuisance of communicating in a different language? Receive emails about upcoming NOVA programs and related ...

A recent study published in the journal Cell provides evidence that the human brain uses a shared organizational map, or geometry, to represent word meanings across different languages. By recording ...

Google Translate is getting an AI-powered upgrade in the coming weeks to help you find more accurate translations, particularly for words with multiple definitions. The app will offer additional ...

It sounded like the side-plot from a Thomas Pynchon novel or, at least, a cheap paperback Pan-Pacific spy thriller: A scrambled piece of first-century BC Latin text run through Google Translate seemed ...

The Russian language has a word for light blue and a word for dark or navy blue, but no word for a run-of-the-mill generic shade of blue. So when translators are tasked with converting "blue" from ...