Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena, Germany have just launched the Color Game, an app designed to provide a new way to study language evolution. The game asks players to communicate ...
Social Sciences
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Once just an obscure island dialect of an African Bantu tongue, Swahili has evolved into Africa's most internationally recognized language. It is peer to the few languages of the world that boast over 200 million users.
Social Sciences
Feb 21, 2022
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Many of us were taught that "scruffing" a cat—or grabbing the animal by the loose skin at the back of the neck—is not only an effective mode of restraint, but also causes cats to relax. The thought behind this is that ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 15, 2019
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Computers have helped mathematical research accelerate in multiple directions and increased the presence of mathematics in everyday life.
Education
Jan 27, 2020
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5,000 years ago, the Yamnaya culture migrated into Europe from the Caspian steppe. In addition to innovations such as the wagon and dairy production, they brought a new language - Indo-European - that replaced most local ...
Archaeology
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Language has the power to shape our perceptions and interactions with the world. Different languages can coexist, but their dynamics are shaped by the communities that speak them—and how those communities interact with ...
Social Sciences
Nov 14, 2023
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Typically, about 1 in 6 children experience a developmental delay. But children born during the pandemic, a 2022 study has found, have nearly twice the risk of developmental delays in communication and social development ...
Education
May 19, 2022
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The recent explosion of generative AI tools has prompted many discussions in virtually all fields about the benefits and risks of these technologies. These tools, including ChatGPT, Bard and others, have been trained on huge ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Nov 3, 2023
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"I learn", "you learn", "she learns", "they learn", yet, according to a surprising new linguistic study, in countries where the dominant language allows personal pronouns such as 'I' to be omitted, learning suffers.
Social Sciences
Dec 3, 2018
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Within just 45 years south eastern English pronunciations will be used across the UK, according to new research from the Universities of Portsmouth and Cambridge.
General Physics
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