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Grammar Changes How We See, an Australian Language Shows
In the early 20th century linguist Benjamin Lee Whorf thrilled his contemporaries by noting that the Hopi language, spoken by…
People Who Speak Backward Reveal the Brain’s Endless Ability to Play with Language
In 2020 Adolfo García, a neurolinguist at Argentina’s University of San Andrés, had a chance encounter with a photographer who…
The State of Large Language Models
LAUREN LEFFER: At the end of November, it’ll be one year since ChatGPT was first made public, rapidly accelerating the…
Scientists Are Beginning to Learn the Language of Bats and Bees Using AI
Hi Science, Quickly listeners. This is Jeff DelViscio, executive producer of the show. The whole podcast team is out in…
English May Be Science’s Native Language, but It’s Not Native to All Scientists
When I (Nakamura) first arrived in the U.S. for a postdoctoral fellowship, the anxiety of speaking English struck the first…