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Both toddlers and Gifted Word Learner dogs can learn new words by listening to people, providing new insight into the social and cognitive cues involved in learning language.

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Strange Squeaks: A Uniquely Human Gene Alters Mouse “Songs”

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A Way with Words: Using Genomics to Dispel Stuttering Myths

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Researchers Report Decoding Thoughts from fMRI Data

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DNA Analyses Illuminate Origins of Farming, Ancestral Languages

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Ursula Bellugi, Leading Sign Language Neuroscientist, Dies at 91

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Can Mushrooms “Talk” to Each Other?

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Distracted Brains Better at Parsing Unfamiliar Languages: Study

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R. Allen Gardner, Who Taught Chimps to Sign, Dies at 91

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Is Your Brain Wired for Numbers?

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How a Forensic Biologist Exposed a DNA Lab Scandal That Shook Australia

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Universe 25 Experiment

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One Gene Influences 75 Percent of Alzheimer’s Disease Cases

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Postdoc Portrait: Rohita Roy

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From Data to Discovery: Omics in Therapeutic Innovation

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Exploring Organoids for Disease Modeling Research

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A Stubborn Gene, a Failed Experiment, and a New Path

When experiments refuse to cooperate, you try again and again. For Rafael Najmanovich, the setbacks ultimately pushed him in a new direction.

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