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In a scientific environment at Mansoura University, a team of passionate Egyptian scientists discovered a fossil of an unknown four-legged whale that lived 43 million years ago in Egypt's western desert in Fayum.

In a groundbreaking study conducted at Northwestern University, researchers found that sign language, just like spoken language, supports infant cognitive development in hearing infants who had never been exposed to sign language. In their press release, researchers indicated that their finding expands the understanding of the powerful and inherent link between language and cognition-language in humans.

Previous research investigated how musical and linguistic brain functions are closely linked. Its results have shown that both of them adjust auditory perception and highlighted how a music-related hobby boosts language skill affects the processing of speech in the brain.

As technological advances conquer our lives, many traditional practices retreat to the background regardless of their importance. Handwriting is an example of such practices that have been neglected and is being replaced by typing, at work and in schools. The issue has prompted a question about the real effect of handwriting on literacy and beyond.

Results of a new study that examined how using puppets as social partners alter the attention for autistic children showed that puppets can attract and hold autistic children’s attention, raising the potential for developing more engaging therapies for Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) children that could be implemented to strengthen social engagement and facilitate learning.

Although the tendency to feed children information sounds alluring to some parents and educators, it turns out that it is not the right trigger for a child’s curiosity towards learning new things or subjects.

New research conducted by a team of researchers from Chicago and Carnegie Mellon Universities, USA, which has been published in the psychological science journal, has highlighted a key element in the process of learning a new language in children; the way people talk to them.

We will probably be shocked to know that the world record for the quickest vaccine is four years! So, what is the strategy or methods used throughout this process to accelerate the vaccine production?

Ever since the new Coronavirus, the cause of the disease known as COVID-19, first appeared, the world has been experiencing new variants and multiple waves of the virus, leaving world scientists baffled as to what may come next.

Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a challenging disorder for doctors to diagnose because it cannot be detected through a physical test like other diseases, but rather on the observation of a person’s development history and behavior.