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South Korea says American has swine flu (AP)

South Korea says American has swine flu

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created May 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Authorities in South Korea say tests have confirmed that an American citizen in the country has swine flu.





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Sign language puzzle solved

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (15) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have known for 40 years that even though it takes longer to use sign language to sign individual words, sentences can be signed, on average, in the same time it takes to say them, ...


Google has began weaving an automated language translation feature into its universal search service

Google adds translation to main search engine

Technology / Internet

created Dec 04, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Google has began weaving an automated language translation feature into its universal search service.


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Google Go gets going (w/ Video)

Technology / Software

created Nov 11, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (13) | comments 7

(PhysOrg.com) -- Google has introduced its new experimental programming language Go, which aims to combine speedy application development through simplified coding with high-speed program execution.


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Babble Of Baby Reveals Language Skills

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Nov 03, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 1

Children have a remarkable ability to learn new languages. As little as five hours of exposure to a second language is enough to help infants incorporate characteristics of that language into their babbling ...


What is unique in the brain of an Arabic speaker?

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (11) | comments 1

Literary Arabic is expressed in the brain of an Arabic speaker as a second language and not as a native language. This has been shown in a new study by Dr. Raphiq Ibrahim of the Edmond J. Safra Brain Research Center for the ...


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Babies' language learning starts from the womb

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- From their very first days, newborns' cries already bear the mark of the language their parents speak, reveals a new study published online on November 5th in Current Biology, a Cell Press ...


Twitter co-founder Biz Stone is interviewed during the Twitter Conference LA in Los Angeles on September 2009.

Twitter plans French, German, Italian and Spanish sites

Technology / Internet

created Oct 11, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Twitter, the fast-growing micro-blogging service, is seeking volunteer French, German, Italian, and Spanish translators to render its website into other languages.


I think step to the left, you think step to the east

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 4

Even the way people remember dance moves depends on the culture they come from, according to a report in the December 14th issue of Current Biology. Whereas a German or other Westerner might think in terms of "step to the ...


Scholar helps classify clicks in African languages

Scholar helps classify clicks in African languages

Other Sciences / Other

created Oct 22, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(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 ...


How do we understand written language?

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Dec 16, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 1

How do we know that certain combinations of letters have certain meanings? Reading and spelling are complex processes, involving several different areas of the brain, but researchers from Johns Hopkins University in the ...



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