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Mind

Mother’s voice seems to boost language development in premature babies

Babies born too soon seem to have stronger connections in one of the major brain areas that supports language processing if they regularly heard their mother read them a story while in intensive care

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Life

20 bird species can understand each other鈥檚 anti-cuckoo call

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Atlantic bottlenose dolphin

Life

We will soon be able to talk with other species. Which will be first?

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Humans

Did childcare fuel language? A new book makes the case

Culture
Temple of Augustus and Rome ruins, in Turkey

Humans

AI helps reconstruct damaged Latin inscriptions from the Roman Empire

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Technology

New book is an illuminating but flawed look at the impact of emoji

Culture
Gen z friends make a TikTok video with a cell phone. The man is a LGBTQIA person and the female is a young woman living with alopecia. University students and friends

Technology

Slay the new slang: check out a guide to social media鈥檚 baffling lingo

Culture

Mind

Emojis give your friends a better impression of you

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The word 'language' being highlighted in a dictionary.

Humans

Ancient humans only evolved language once, but why?

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Technology

Should you still learn a second language if AI can translate for you?

Artificial intelligence has removed many of the barriers to understanding a new language, but there are still good reasons to do things the old-fashioned way

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Life

Best evidence yet that dolphin whistles are like a shared language

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Humans

An elegant account of how one ancient language went global

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Society

US congressional speeches are getting less evidence-based over time

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Humans

The hunt for the birthplace of Indo-European languages

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