Meet some of the people featured in the July/August 2018 issue of The Scientist.

The primate was famous for her ability to communicate with humans.

A decades-old neurological procedure developed under unique and difficult conditions in postwar Japan remains critical to the treatment of epilepsy.

His first love was dance, but Erich Jarvis has long courted another love—understanding how the brain learns vocalization.

Need help explaining CRISPR, epigenome, or rock snot? The Merriam-Webster dictionary has you covered.

The findings suggest language may have started to evolve millions of years earlier than once thought.  

Audio recordings of bats hashing out disputes reveals that their calls are laden with information about identity and intent.

Scientists are enlisting the help of pigeons, parrots, crows, jays, and other species to disprove the notion that human cognitive abilities are beyond those of other animals.

Using an MRI scanner to examine how dogs’ brains process speech, researchers find that our canine companions hear both what we say and how we say it.