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Space

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! 91av has reported some shaky inferences in Februaries past

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Life

We need smarter ways to probe primate brains

Culture

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Humans

I could speak a different language every week for a year

Features

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Life

Baboons recorded making key sounds found in human speech

News

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Technology

Twitter is being used in classes to help students learn Arabic

News

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Technology

Cracking Arrival-like alien languages is gaming's new frontier

News

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Technology

Lazy coders are training artificial intelligences to be sexist

News

Google Translate AI invents its own language to translate with

Technology

Google Translate AI invents its own language to translate with

News

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Humans

Language trends run in mysterious 14-year cycles

News

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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

News

Humans

When politics fills the language gap, can science be neutral?

Culture

Life

Mice’s love songs go wrong when ‘language gene’ is messed up

News

Space

The science behind the twisting alien linguistics of Arrival

Culture

Health

A new London musical will change the way we think about cancer

Culture

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