Can babies cry in French, German, English? When do they start to develop their own dialects, accents, even individual voices? To learn about the science of language development in infants, I reached out to Marilyn Vihman, professor of linguistics at the University of York. Click the link below and watch the video above to learn …

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Expanding waistlines may be caused by more than bad diets and sedentary habits. Antibiotics could be disrupting our gut bacteria, helping people pack on fat like farm animals. This scenario is, for now, a hypothesis, but one that’s fleshed out in two new studies. In the first, mice given antibiotics experienced profound changes to internal …

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Rapidly expanding populations in developing nations result in an overwhelming amount of solid and organic waste. In many of these small, struggling nations, there are few or no managed landfills. Much of the waste is simply dumped on the ground near the edge of town. These open air garbage dumps put people at risk for …

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At a zoo, a sick mother chimpanzee died, leaving her baby behind as an orphan. A zoo employee took her orphan baby home, knowing that it would need special attention during the early stages of its life. The employee knew the poor baby needed attention, but they didn’t realize it would be adopted into a …

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Cat owners are no more likely than people without pets to have brain cancer, a new study finds. If you’re wondering whether you should be relieved as a cat owner or confused as to what Fluffy the Persian has to do with brain cancer at all, we’re here to help. The story starts last year, …

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WE keep talking about spirituality, especially Christianity, on my FB pages. When I was in my early 20s, I had one of the prophetic visions that have marked my life. I dreamed that I was sitting in a great coliseum. All around me, at various levels, were groups of people, clearly organized into little cells. …

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