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Why being bilingual really does seem to delay dementia

Multiple studies suggest that speaking more than one language pushes back the onset of dementia, but doesn't seem to stop it entirely

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Mind

Babies in bilingual homes have distinct brain patterns at 4 months old

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Life

Dolphins 'talk' to their young in a higher pitch, just like humans do

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Mind

You can learn foreign words as you sleep but it won't make you fluent

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Women and children of the Chiman ethnic group participate in a protest march to Yucumo, September 16, 2011. The Amazonian ethnic groups which live in the Isiboro Secure territory, known by its Spanish acronym TIPNIS, are completing a 370 miles (595 km) march from Trinidad, in the northern Beni province, to La Paz to protest against a projected 185 mile (298 km) long highway that bisects the protected park in the Amazon forest, activists leading the march said. The protesters, who have a list of demands apart from their rejection of the highway project being financed by Brazil, are entering a rural region with strong sentiments for President Evo Morales, raising the possibility of confrontations on their way to La Paz. REUTERS/David Mercado (BOLIVIA - Tags: CIVIL UNREST POLITICS ENVIRONMENT) - GM1E79H0SU101

Humans

The unique, vanishing languages that hold secrets about how we think

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Ljubljana Marshes Wheel with axle (oldest wooden wheel yet discovered)

Humans

Can we ever know who invented the wheel?

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The Power of Language review: What speaking many languages can do

Culture

Physicist David Wolpert on how to study concepts beyond imagination

Mind

Physicist David Wolpert on how to study concepts beyond imagination

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Cave painting of cattle

Humans

Mysterious symbols in cave paintings may be earliest form of writing

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Humans

The ancestral language of half the world reveals our shared culture

The hunt for the prehistoric mother tongue that gave rise to dozens of the languages we speak today reminds us of the scientific case for international identity

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Humans

Oldest legible sentence written with first alphabet is about head lice

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Humans

How the secrets of ancient cuneiform texts are being revealed by AI

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Technology

Meta's AI can translate between 204 languages, including rare ones

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Technology

Quantum microphone works even better than a regular one

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