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If a newborn child grows up hearing people speaking in many different languages, will it later be able to speak all those languages?— Puneesh T., IndiaChildren learn languages from the people around...

There are no environmental showstoppers in SpaceX’s plans to launch a giant new rocket to orbit from South Texas, the Federal Aviation Administration said on Monday.An environmental assessment by the agency has...

Taking a scan of an injured brain often produces a map of irretrievable losses, revealing spots where damage causes memory difficulties or tremors.But in rare cases, those scans can expose just the...

This is the final installment in the Visionaries series, which looks at figures who are trying to transform the way we live.Every year, humans pump around 50 billion tons of carbon dioxide...

The Food and Drug Administration said on Sunday that three doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine appeared to be effective in preventing Covid illness in children under 5, judging by the level...

The index rates polyester as one of the world’s most sustainable fabrics, for example, using data on European polyester production provided by a plastics-industry group, although most of the world’s polyester is...

ROME — For most people, the Colosseum conjures up scenes of bloody gladiatorial combat, or doomed encounters between Christians and vicious lions and tigers.But the recent restoration of a 17th-century wall painting...

It’s a riddle. No one knows for sure why dolphins are being spotted more frequently and for longer periods in and around New York Harbor, the giant estuary where salty ocean tides...

Valery Ryumin, a Soviet tank commander who became a cosmonaut and spent more than a year in space, setting endurance records — and then, after 18 years, took another flight, this time...

The plump, glossy larvae of the darkling beetle, nicknamed “superworms” perhaps because of their size, are usually content to munch on wheat bran. But a number of the two-inch-long critters recently found...