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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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20 bird species can understand each other’s anti-cuckoo call

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Atlantic bottlenose dolphin

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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

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Temple of Augustus and Rome ruins, in Turkey

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AI helps reconstruct damaged Latin inscriptions from the Roman Empire

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

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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

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

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Mind

Emojis give your friends a better impression of you

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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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