A cognitive neuroscientist, Ellen Bialystok has spent almost 40 years learning about how bilingualism sharpens the mind. Her good news: Among other benefits, the regular use of two languages appears to delay the onset of Alzheimer’s disease symptoms. Dr. Bialystok, 62, a distinguished research professor of psychology at York University in Toronto, was awarded a $100,000 Killam Prize last yea
WASHINGTON — The International Monetary Fund, still struggling to find a new leader after the arrest of its managing director last month in New York, was hit recently by what computer experts describe as a large and sophisticated cyberattack whose dimensions are still unknown. The fund, which manages financial crises around the world and is the repository of highly confidential information about t
A researcher analyzing the sounds in languages spoken around the world has detected an ancient signal that points to southern Africa as the place where modern human language originated. The finding fits well with the evidence from fossil skulls and DNA that modern humans originated in Africa. It also implies, though does not prove, that modern language originated only once, an issue of considerabl
A volunteer in Ofunato, Japan, cleaned photographs that were found in the tsunami debris.Credit...Toru Hanai/Reuters TOKYO — Japanese officials struggled through the day on Tuesday to explain why it had taken them a month to disclose large-scale releases of radioactive material in mid-March at a crippled nuclear power plant, as the government and an electric utility disagreed on the extent of cont
Residents at a school gym serving as a shelter received their dinner rations on Friday in Tagajo, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan.Credit...Daisuke Tomita/Yomiuri Shimbun, via Associated Press ICHINOSEKI, Japan (AP) — Shoppers emptied store shelves, traffic snarled after stoplights lost power and drivers waited in long lines to buy gasoline in a new wave of anxiety on Friday, a day after a magnitude-7.1 a
U.S. Sees Array of New Threats at Japan’s Nuclear Plant United States government engineers sent to help with the crisis in Japan are warning that the troubled nuclear plant there is facing a wide array of fresh threats that could persist indefinitely, and that in some cases are expected to increase as a result of the very measures being taken to keep the plant stable, according to a confidential a
For the clearest picture of what is happening at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, talk to scientists thousands of miles away. Thanks to the unfamiliar but sophisticated art of atomic forensics, experts around the world have been able to document the situation vividly. Over decades, they have become very good at illuminating the hidden workings of nuclear power plants from afar, turni
‘Furiosa’ Is a Box Office Dud, Adding to Hollywood WoesMemorial Day weekend ticket sales in North America are expected to total $125 million, down 40 percent from last year. Don Perlin, Comic Book Artist Who Found Success Late, Dies at 94His Moon Knight was a hit in the 1970s, 30 years after he began his career. Bloodshot, another popular superhero, followed two decades later.
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