A baby's babbling may sound like nonsense, but it's actually an extended act of trial-and-error learning. As babies produce ...

There's an old phrase popularized by Dr. Theodore Woodward from the University of Maryland in the 1940s that says, "if you hear hoofbeats, think horses, not zebras." In Rutherford County, the sound of ...

Their first vocalizations help young zebra finch males to memorize the songs of adults. When babies learn to talk or birds learn to sing, the same principle applies: listen and then imitate. This is ...

Skyrmions are tiny whirlpools of magnetic spin that some researchers believe have useful properties that could unlock new kinds of computing. However, getting skyrmions to perform useful computational ...