New research from Northwestern University shows 15-month-old infants can learn words for objects they've never seen. This breakthrough challenges previous assumptions about early language learning ...

For centuries, an inanimate object or animal could be held responsible—and punished!—for committing a crime. Don’t take our word for it. Just ask Plato, who wrote in one of his dialogues: “If a beast ...

This story has been updated with links and additional information. Effective immediately, the Big 12 Conference will crack down harder on instances of objects thrown from the stands, a policy change ...

Is it a bird, is it a plane? Well, astronomers aren't quite sure what it is! A truly rare, mysterious visitor has been spotted speeding through our cosmic neighbourhood from another solar system. The ...

When the Thabo Mbeki Foundation marked its 15th anniversary on 11 October, the date was not incidental. Exactly 15 years earlier, on the same day and at the same venue, the Sandton Convention Centre ...

An optical illusion puzzle has become a big challenge for people of all ages. The picture shared by Ok_Recipe2769 on the subreddit r/mildlyinfuriating shows two cartoon cats underwater with some ...

This collection contains the professional papers of anthropologist Marvin Harris. Harris was a prominent anthropologist, best known for developing the controversial paradigm of cultural materialism.

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