(Phys.org)—A pair of researchers has conducted a phylogenetic analysis on common fairy tales and has found that many of them appear to be much older than has been thought. In their paper published in Royal Society Open ...
The 2015 Paris Climate Conference (COP21) is in full gear and climate change is again on everyone's mind. It conjures up images of melting glaciers, rising sea levels, droughts, flooding, threatened habitats, endangered species, ...
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Dec 10, 2015
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The words people use on social media can reveal hidden meaning to those who know where to look.
Computer Sciences
Sep 29, 2015
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If you speak English or another big language, you can talk to your mobile phone, use search engines, and get machine translation systems to do your translations for you. This has been made possible because English is a huge ...
Social Sciences
Sep 8, 2015
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Academics at the University of York have discovered a correlation between genetic and linguistic diversity and concluded that at least in Europe people who speak different languages are also more likely to have a different ...
Social Sciences
Jul 3, 2015
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Using a database of 130,000 Yelp reviews of restaurants in Washington, D.C., two professors and a graduate student at the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business have identified a method that allows software ...
Economics & Business
Dec 17, 2014
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New research shows economic growth to be main driver of language extinction and reveals global 'hotspots' where languages are most under threat.
Social Sciences
Sep 3, 2014
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A new Journal of Evolutionary Biology study provides evidence that physical barriers formed by oceans can influence language diversification.
Social Sciences
Sep 2, 2014
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When University of Kentucky student Erica Mattingly enrolled in one of Andrew M. Byrd's linguistics courses, she had no idea she would be rewriting history—or at least re-speaking it.
Social Sciences
Jul 7, 2014
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New research published in the June 2014 issue of Language presents evidence that the methods employed by the authors of articles published in prestigious international science journals are not supported by a more rigorous ...
Social Sciences
Jun 2, 2014
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