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First words: The surprisingly simple foundation of language

31 May 2017

How children learn language is one of the oldest controversies in linguistics. But speaking may just be a matter of grasping the relationship between things

The appetite genes: Why some of us are born to eat too much

31 May 2017

Subtle differences in how we respond to food, driven by our genes, are the true reason we can struggle to keep to the weight we want to be

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