News tagged with extinct language

A virtual Babylonian comeback 2,000 years after disappearence of natives

Almost 2,000 years after its last native speakers disappeared, the sound of Ancient Babylonian is being lined up for an unlikely comeback, in an online audio archive.

Other Sciences / Other

created Sep 30, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Scholar helps classify clicks in African languages

(PhysOrg.com) -- Linguistics scholar Amanda Miller is doing research with high-speed ultrasound technology to help her and fellow researchers successfully record and classify clicks in an endangered African ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Oct 22, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Archeologists discover temple that sheds light on 'Dark Age'

The discovery of a remarkably well-preserved monumental temple in Turkey — thought to be constructed during the time of King Solomon in the 10th/9th-centuries BC -- sheds light on the so-called Dark Age.

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Apr 15, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (10) | comments 2




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Our Amorphophallus is smaller: New plant species from Madagascar smells like roadkill

The famed "corpse flower" plant – known for its giant size, rotten-meat odor and phallic shape – has a new, smaller relative: A University of Utah botanist discovered a new species of Amorphophallus that i ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Feb 07, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Tinkering with evolution: Ecological implications of modular software networks

(PhysOrg.com) -- In the 1960s, Dr. Lawrence J. Fogel introduced what would come to be known as evolutionary programming to the nascent field of Artificial Intelligence in an attempt to produce intelligent softwa ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Dec 19, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (5) | comments 2 | with audio podcast feature

Will the English language ever die?

These cultural conventions are indicative of how a language impacts the worldview of the people who speak it. In Martu, an Aboriginal language from Western Australian, black and all dark colours are maru or maru-maru while ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Oct 24, 2011 | popularity 2 / 5 (2) | comments 39

Wyoming, feds announce plan for delisting wolves

(AP) -- Wyoming and the U.S. Department of Interior have reached an agreement over how to end federal protections for wolves in the state, officials announced Wednesday.

Biology / Ecology

created Aug 03, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Strength in numbers

New research sheds light on why, after 300,000 years of domination, European Neanderthals abruptly disappeared. Researchers from the University of Cambridge have discovered that modern humans coming from Africa swarmed the ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Jul 28, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (16) | comments 16 | with audio podcast

'Time' not necessarily deeply rooted in our brains

(Medical Xpress) -- Hidden away in the Amazonian rainforest a small tribe have successfully managed what so many dream of being able to do – to ignore the pressures of time so successfully that they don’t ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created May 20, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (21) | comments 36 | with audio podcast

Genomic archeology reveals early evolution of sex chromosomes

A team from Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden, is using genomics to shed light on the early evolutionary history of sex chromosomes. The research is published in the April 2011 Eukaryotic Cell.

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created May 17, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Birds invent new songs in evolutionary fast-forward

Native North Island saddlebacks have developed such distinctive new songs in the last 50 years that it is not clear if birds on one island recognise what their neighbors are singing about, a Massey University ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created May 02, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Voyager set to enter interstellar space

(PhysOrg.com) -- More than 30 years after they left Earth, NASA's twin Voyager probes are now at the edge of the solar system. Not only that, they're still working. And with each passing day they are beaming ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Apr 29, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (26) | comments 18 | with audio podcast

Study finds remarkable diversity of lichen species in Florida state park

If you seek America's most diverse, densely packed human population, head for New York's Manhattan, but if it's lichens you fancy instead of people, then Southwestern Florida is your best bet.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Mar 24, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


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