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Listen carefully to a spoken conversation and you’ll notice that the speakers use a lot of little quasi-words — mm-hmm,…

February 26, 2025 4 min read The Latest on Bird Flu’s Hits to Egg Supplies, Rats and Cats Avian influenza…

Few voters likely expected President Donald Trump in the first weeks of his administration to slash billions of dollars from…

Some private schools have shut down because of a rapidly escalating measles outbreak in West Texas. Local health departments are…

CLIMATEWIRE | The Trump administration has fired hundreds of Federal Emergency Management Agency employees and is now targeting staff involved…

Sonya Stokes, an emergency room physician in the San Francisco Bay Area, braces herself for a daily deluge of patients…

February 14, 2025 3 min read The Psychology of ‘Shared Silence’ in Couples The right kind of silence can be…

The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. When a hurricane…

February 7, 2025 3 min read Trump Halts Funding to Build More Electric Vehicle Chargers Nationwide The Trump administration has…

For all the world’s linguistic diversity, human languages still obey some universal patterns. These run even deeper than grammar and…