Recent science news on Science Island. Read more details here https://scienceisland.org/ 1 - Ocean on Saturn Moon Could be as Salty as the Dead Sea Scientists analyzing data from NASA’s Cassini mission have firm evidence the ocean inside Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, might be as salty as the Earth’s Dead Sea. 2 - New Reprogramming Method Makes Better Stem Cells Researchers have shown for the first time that stem cells created using different methods produce differing cells. The findings provide new insights into the basic biology of stem cells and could ultimately lead to improved stem cell therapies. 3 - Which Happened First: Did Sounds Form Words, or Words Form Sentences? A recent review of animal communication in particular has yielded an intriguing discovery: while structured animal call sequences (for example, birdsong) are widespread, it is very rare that meaningless sounds produced by animals form meaningful sequences, as they do in human languages. This observation, combined with supporting evidence from human languages, has led linguists to suggest that syntax (the structure and rules of language, such as sentence structure) may have evolved before phonemes (the meaning-differentiating sounds that do not themselves have meaning).
Posted on: Thu, 03 Jul 2014 21:00:28 +0000
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