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Rowan Hooper interviews super humans at New Scientist Live

How to be superhuman: The science behind extraordinary abilities

12 December 2019

Rowan Hooper asks special guests what it feels like to be exceptional. And what does it take to get there?
World's most-spoken languages may have arisen in ancient Iran

World's most-spoken languages may have arisen in ancient Iran

23 May 2018

About 3 billion people speak Indo-European languages like English and Hindustani, and it seems the first such tongue was spoken south of the Caucasus mountains

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