Humans
Old Scientist: Into the twilight zone of dubious causation
Learn in your sleep! Believe your horoscope! It’s not our fault, the window blew in! Â鶹´«Ã½ has reported some shaky inferences in Februaries past
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Humans
I could speak a different language every week for a year
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Environment
We need smarter ways to probe primate brains
Culture
Environment
Baboons recorded making key sounds found in human speech
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Technology
Twitter is being used in classes to help students learn Arabic
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Technology
Cracking Arrival-like alien languages is gaming’s new frontier
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Technology
Lazy coders are training artificial intelligences to be sexist
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Technology
Google Translate AI invents its own language to translate with
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Humans
Language trends run in mysterious 14-year cycles
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Technology
Google’s DeepMind AI can lip-read TV shows better than a pro
An artificial intelligence system developed by researchers at DeepMind and the University of Oxford got so good by watching 5000 hours of BBC programmes
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Humans
When politics fills the language gap, can science be neutral?
Culture
Humans
Mice’s love songs go wrong when ‘language gene’ is messed up
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Humans
The science behind the twisting alien linguistics of Arrival
Culture
Health
A new London musical will change the way we think about cancer
Culture