A study by the University of York and Aarhus University has revealed that baby talk displays similar properties across 36 languages.
Social Sciences
Oct 10, 2022
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The world we live in is often divided using a binary urban-rural distinction, despite a huge gradient of settlement patterns in and around cities—ranging from urban to the most remote rural areas. New research led through ...
Social Sciences
Aug 4, 2022
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Every year, almost 7 million potentially serious bacterial infections are estimated to occur in newborns, resulting in more than 550,000 annual neonatal deaths. Most of these infections and deaths happen in LMICs, where often ...
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 4, 2022
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Children who suddenly appear to lose the thread of an otherwise obvious conversation often do so because they cannot combine two key communicative skills until surprisingly late in their development, researchers have found.
Education
Jun 30, 2022
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Everyone remembers those old high school movies where the ultra-nerdy teenage boy falls in love with a the most beautiful girl in the whole school. The movie begins with the girl not knowing anything about the geeky leading ...
Social Sciences
Jun 21, 2022
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Vaccinating household chicken flocks can increase availability and consumption of eggs and meat, leading to better growth of young children in agriculture-dependent families in rural Kenya.
Agriculture
Jun 8, 2022
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As educators and industry mull strategies for attracting more young adults to math-oriented professions, a new study in the journal Child Development suggests that children's early experiences doing math homework and activities ...
Social Sciences
Apr 25, 2022
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The ability to map letters to sounds is considered an important indicator of early literacy skills. Previous research shows that letter sound mappings in kindergarten is strongly associated with later reading success and ...
Education
Mar 29, 2022
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Malaria remains one of the biggest global public health challenges. It kills a young child every two minutes, more than any other infectious disease.
Cell & Microbiology
Feb 25, 2022
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A new study by researchers from Central European University's (CEU) Department of Cognitive Science, Eotvos Lorand University (ELTE), the University of St. Andrews, and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology ...
Plants & Animals
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