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Some things are easy to talk about; infertility is not one of them. I speak from experience – of miscarriage and unsuccessful rounds of IVF –…

Farage says Trump’s tariffs threat ‘wrong’ and he will be ‘having words’ with US officials about it at DavosNigel Farage, the Reform UK leader, is normally…

Nature, Published online: 16 January 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-00112-yParticularly talented canines have sociolinguistic skills akin to those of young toddlers.

“Remember your why.” Arguably, these are the three worst words any administrator or professional development trainer has uttered in the past decade. It is usually preceded…

January 8, 20263 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAmYour Dog Might Be Eavesdropping on YouA new study reveals that some smart dogs can learn words…

Whether it is a piece of food or a four-letter expletive, words can be learned by young children overhearing adults – but now researchers have found…

When Naushaba Roonjho became the first girl anyone in her district knew to have passed Pakistan’s national secondary school exam, the news was not celebrated. At…

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…

Arabic is one of the world’s most widely spoken languages with at least 400 million speakers, including 200 million native speakers and 200 million to 250…

After a pretty scrappy week in federal parliament, Jim Chalmers went to the Crawford school at the Australian National University on Thursday night, speaking to an…