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Toddlers pick up lots of grammar around 24 months

How we learn language is "one of the biggest scientific puzzles out there." A new approach could help settle the debate: is grammar innate or learned?

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climate change University of Arizona

Colorado River flow could drop 50% by 2100

relationships University of Missouri

How teachers see parents can influence kids

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Stanford University Implant lets paralyzed people type with their minds

University of California, Berkeley You could find Planet 9 in these ‘flipbook’ movies

ETH Zurich Why big data can’t predict the next armed conflict

groundhog - Punxsatawney Phil - peeks out of burrow

University of Arizona Why Punxsutawney Phil lives in a burrow

Stanford University Could this technique bring liberals and conservatives together?

ETH Zurich Birds don’t carry seeds far enough to save rainforest

Rice University Some invading beetles are born to go far

University of Arizona 2 Maya collapses came in waves of unrest

Washington University in St. Louis Newborn brain may hold predictors of anxiety, depression

Washington University in St. Louis Psych patients want to quit smoking but don’t get help

Washington University in St. Louis Replacing eye’s gel restores vision after brain injury

sugar University of Arizona Eating lots of sugar may protect moth muscles

heartburn Washington University in St. Louis

On heartburn drugs? Kidney trouble could surprise you

hearts Vanderbilt University

Thumping ‘thread’ mimics heart’s response to drugs

brains Stanford University

Could a ‘bored’ brain predict teen drug abuse?

fracking Rutgers University

Microbes differ downstream from fracking wastewater

Wastewater from oil and gas operations—including fracking for shale gas—at a West Virginia site altered microbes downstream, according to a new study.

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Ice Age University of Michigan Scientists find answer to Ice Age’s Laurentide paradox

stars

stars University of Warwick

White dwarf pulsar unlike anything ever seen

artist's rendering of tails of the pulsar Geminga

pulsars

Images of 2 pulsars could clear up geometry debate

Recent images of two pulsars—Geminga and B0355+54—could shed light on their distinctive emission signatures, as well as pulsars' often perplexing geometry.

gadgets

wearable devices Georgia Institute of Technology

‘Sip’ info from your smartwatch, ‘whoosh’ it to your phone

weight loss

Don’t bank on wearables to keep weight off

A weight loss program worked better without a wearable fitness tracker than with it, researchers report. Do the devices actually hinder weight loss?

volunteers

teens New York University

Unlike adults, teens pitch in despite income inequality

voters

Volunteers and voters have better health literacy

People who are more engaged civically—those who vote and volunteer—are more health literate than those who don't, report researchers.

wine

hydrogel Stanford University

Cheaper hydrogels fight wildfire and clean wineries

wine

Forget the snobs, says economist of wine

Economist Karl Storchmann loves wine so much he started an academic journal about it. Here, he debunks wine snobbery and advocates for New Jersey wine.

cells Stanford University Nanostraw doesn’t destroy cells as it samples their guts

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implants Stanford University