At the heart of linguistics is a radical premise: all languages are equal. This underlies everything we do at the Endangered Language Alliance, an eccentric extended family of linguists, language activists, polyglots and ordinary people, whose mission is to document endangered languages and support linguistic diversity, especially in the world’s hyperdiverse cities. Language is a … Read more
Live coverage of the moon landing attempt will be streamed inside of this story beginning at approximately 5 p.m. ET. CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A private lunar lander could be the first U.S. craft to smoothly touchdown, and land on the moon since NASA astronauts closed out the Apollo program in 1972. Launched last … Read more
Space enthusiasts were quick to snap up tickets for an upcoming special flight offered by Delta Air Lines that is designed to give passengers “as much time as possible directly within the path of totality” during the total solar eclipse on April 8. This is be the last total solar eclipse viewable from Canada and … Read more
Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Joe Biden has met with the family of Alexei Navalny, following the recent death of the 47-year-old political activist in a Russian prison. The president met with Yulia Navalnaya and Dasha … Read more
People with higher exposure to traffic-related air pollution were more likely to have high amounts of amyloid plaques in their brains associated with Alzheimer’s disease after death, according to a study published in the February 21, 2024, online issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. Researchers looked at fine particulate … Read more
Artist’s impression of ERS-2 in space. Credit: ESA Launched in 1995, ERS-2 was a pioneering Earth observation satellite that greatly influenced our understanding of our planet and climate change. Despite an intended operational life of only three years, the satellite had a 16-year operational lifetime, and together with the almost identical ERS-1 satellite left an … Read more
During the second world war, American airmen and sailors shot down or torpedoed in the Pacific often became stranded on life rafts and died of dehydration before they could be rescued. The biophysicist Mária Telkes was drafted in from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to find a way of preventing dehydration and thus saving servicemenâs … Read more
Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Scott and his wife had gone through the arduous process of in vitro fertilisation once before. The couple, from Mobile in Alabama, have a young child who would not exist without … Read more
The population of bowhead whales that migrates between the Bering and Beaufort Seas each year is a conservation success story, with today’s population nearing — if not exceeding — pre-commercial whaling numbers. But climate change is shifting the whales’ feeding grounds and migration patterns, potentially pushing them to spend more time in the paths of … Read more
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Children living in multilingual communities often learn in a language at school that does not match the language they speak at home. This mismatch makes it challenging for them to participate in classroom discussions and learn to read. In turn, this contributes to poor learning outcomes, grade repetition, and dropping out … Read more
