UCLA researcher Megha Sundara says that, even early on, babies are very good at imitating the rhythm and intonations — part of what makes up "prosody" — of the language they're hearing. Image Source/Getty Images hide caption
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Naked mole rats are very communicative creatures, they quietly chirp, squeak, twitter or even grunt to one another. The scientists wanted to find out whether these vocalizations have a social function for the animals – and found that each colony has its own dialect that promotes social cohesion. Felix Petermann, MDC hide caption
Friend Or Foe? Naked Mole Rats Can Tell By A Unique Squeak
Our voices convey so much more than just information. They can tell other people something essential about who we are. Angela Hsieh hide caption
Beyoncé performs at the Grammy Awards in Los Angeles on Feb. 12. "Instead of me telling someone how good I look, I can just send them a picture of Beyoncé in a queen's outfit," Youth Radio's Robert Fisher says. Lucy Nicholson/Reuters hide caption
What This Picture Of Beyoncé Tells Us About How Generation Z Connects
An Egyptian fruit bat flies in an abandoned quarry near the village of Mammari, Cyprus, in 2007. Alex Mita/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Guglielmo Giovanni Maria Marconi, Italian physicist and inventor, with one of his first wireless telegraphs. A. DeGregorio/Getty Images/DeAgostini hide caption
Nat Batchelder and his mother, Susan Senator, in Foxborough, Mass. Courtesy of Ned Batchelder hide caption
Switchtracking, as defined by author Sheila Heen, is when "someone gives you feedback, and your reaction to that feedback changes the subject." Hanna Barczyk for NPR hide caption
Trying To Change, Or Changing The Subject? How Feedback Gets Derailed
Male treehoppers make their abdomens thrum like tuning forks to transmit very particular vibrating signals that travel down their legs and along leaf stems to other bugs — male and female. Courtesy of Robert Oelman hide caption
Humpback whales and tanker in Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary in Massachusetts Bay. Green Fire Productions/Flickr hide caption
Listening To Whale Migration Reveals A Sea Of Noise Pollution, Too
Humpback whale and calf, off the Revillagigedo Islands, Mexico. Reinhard Dirscherl/Look-foto/Corbis hide caption
It Took A Musician's Ear To Decode The Complex Song In Whale Calls
Patients with certain kinds of brain damage can wind up with locked-in syndrome: they may be able to think just fine, but are unable to communicate their thoughts to others. A recently published case study shows that a non-invasive brain-computer interface can help. iStockphoto hide caption
From Brain To Computer: Helping 'Locked-In' Patient Get His Thoughts Out
Our Use Of Little Words Can, Uh, Reveal Hidden Interests
One set of knuckles meets another. Both are equal in this greeting that expresses approval and triumph. Meredith Rizzo/NPR hide caption
Would time spent with Anton Chekov, famed for his subtle, flawed characters, make you a better judge of human nature? Hulton Archive/Getty Images hide caption
Want To Read Others' Thoughts? Try Reading Literary Fiction
