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Japanese, Italian, Ukrainian, Swahili, Tagalog, and dozens of other spoken languages ​​cause the same “universal language network” to fire in the brains of native speakers. This language processing center has been studied extensively in English speakers, but now neuroscientists have confirmed that the same network is activated in speakers of 45 different languages ​​representing 12 different language families. “This study is very basic, extending some of the findings from English to multiple languages,” senior author Evelina Fedorenko, a professor of neuroscience at MIT and a member of MIT’s McGovern Institute for Brain Research, said in a statement. statement (opens in a new tab) . “The hope is that now that we see that basic traits seem to be common across languages, we can ask about potential differences between languages ​​and language families in how they are implemented in languages. brain and we can study phenomena that don’t real...

The only nearly intact shell of Genyornis has been found. It was discovered by N. Spooner and collected by Gifford H. Miller, South Australia. The presence of four holes in the egg indicates that it was preceded by a sweeping follicle. Credit: Gifford H. Miller Researchers identify ancient bird behind giant prehistoric egg Years of scientific debate has been resolved in Australia about which animal was the true mother of the giant primordial egg. In a recent study, scientists from the University of Copenhagen Their global colleagues showed that the egg could only be the last in a series of rare megafauna known as “death devil ducks”. Consider living next to a bird that weighs 200 kg, is 2 m long and has a large beak. This is the situation of the first people to settle in Australia about 65,000 years ago. Junior Newtonian the last member of the “demon duck”, co-existed there with our ancestors as a species of the now-extinct duck-like bird family. Illustratio...

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Two studies published in the journal Science by researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research in Cologne, Germany in collaboration with colleagues in China have discovered natural cellular molecules that drive critical plant immune responses. This compound has all the advantages of being a small messenger designed by plants to activate the main defense control center. Harnessing this insight allows scientists and plant breeders to design molecules that make plants, including many important plant species, more resistant to disease. World food production must double by 2050 to feed the additional 2 billion people living on Earth by that time. Increasing food production requires increasing yields of many of our staple crops. To do so, there needs to be strategies to ensure that we can make crops more resistant to microscopic infectious agents, while also ensuring that food product...