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February 19, 20263 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm‘Mind-blowing’ baby chick study challenges a theory of how humans evolved languageNewborn chicks connect sounds with shapes…

“Now, Gary, repeat after me: Quiero una margarita, por favor,” my Spanish tutor instructs. I cringe at the butchered Spanglish my estuary accent produces. Like Del…

When patients telephone Butabika hospital in Kampala, Uganda, seeking help with mental health problems, they are themselves assisting future patients by helping to create a therapy…

If you have seen a news story declaring 2025’s chosen “word of the year” in recent weeks, you might be forgiven for asking yourself: what, another…

According to this year’s tax filing, the American Athletic Conference, the $150 million collegiate sports league that includes schools like Rice and Tulane, is striving to…

Universities are blaming a “societal shift” for the axing of dozens of foreign language degrees and even entire departments, citing a lack of demand among students…

Nottingham will be the only Russell Group university not to teach modern foreign languages degrees if it approves plans to close a swath of courses including…

November 11, 20252 min readLearning Another Language May Slow Brain Aging, Huge New Study FindsA large international study suggests that being multilingual can slow down cognitive…

When Robert Hooke gazed through his microscope at a slice of cork and coined the term ‘cell’ in 1665, he was really looking at just the…

When researchers asked people around the world to list every taboo word they could think of, the differences that emerged were revealing. The length of each…