Languages around the world have words for "this" and "that" according to new research from an international team, led by the University of East Anglia. Researchers studied more than 1,000 speakers of 29 different languages ...
Social Sciences
Oct 30, 2023
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For tens of thousands of years, evolution shaped tomatoes through natural mutations. Then, humans came along.
Molecular & Computational biology
Oct 19, 2023
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A new study has provided evidence that young chimpanzees are capable of vocal functional flexibility; a known building block in human language development.
Plants & Animals
Oct 17, 2023
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Language researchers have studied how mothers speak to their infants, to their pets, and to other adults. Mothers speak slowly and clearly to their infants, hyperarticulating speech to teach language. What this research did ...
Social Sciences
Oct 12, 2023
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Archaeologists from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem's Institute of Archaeology recently carried out preliminary excavation at the ancient site of Hyrcania in the northern Judean Desert, coming at the heels of increased ...
Archaeology
Sep 27, 2023
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The first comprehensive analysis of the relationship between campaign donations and the issues legislators prioritize with congressional speech is published in the open access journal PLOS ONE this week.
Political science
Sep 20, 2023
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Language is one aspect that makes us human. Other animals can learn words or calls and communicate, but the ability to generate an infinite number of utterances based on a small number of syntactic rules is unique to humans.
Evolution
Sep 18, 2023
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Developed in 2011, MXene is a two-dimensional nanomaterial with alternating metal and carbon layers, which has high electrical conductivity and can be combined with various metal compounds, making it a material that can be ...
Nanomaterials
Sep 18, 2023
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Music can take on many forms in cultures across the globe, but Yale researchers have found in a new study that some themes are universally recognizable by people everywhere with one notable exception—love songs.
Social Sciences
Sep 7, 2023
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A research team led by Prof. Dr. Klement Tockner, Director General of the Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung and Professor of Ecosystem Sciences at the Goethe University Frankfurt, has investigated the relationship ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 1, 2023
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