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Venus

Space

Old 51¶¯Âþ: Into the twilight zone of dubious causation

Learn in your sleep! Believe your horoscope! It’s not our fault, the window blew in! 51¶¯Âþ has reported some shaky inferences in Februaries past

Regulars

Arguelles

Humans

I could speak a different language every week for a year

Features

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Life

We need smarter ways to probe primate brains

Culture

Monkey with open mouth

Life

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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Image from the film Arrival

Technology

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

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A woman flits between three tables of vintage items

Technology

Lazy coders are training artificial intelligences to be sexist

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Google Translate AI invents its own language to translate with

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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Mouths on screens

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

Life

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

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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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