by Susan Keown | Jun 4, 2023 | ScienceWire
James Urton (@jamesurton) of UW News writes about new research showing a surprising effect of climate: baby name popularity in the U.S. The prevalence of first names that are months or seasons is strongly correlated with the latitude of the state in which they were...
by Chris Tachibana | Feb 3, 2013 | ScienceWire
We’re born to talk, writes NSWA Vice President Molly McElroy. She shows how researchers at the University of Washington in Seattle, and the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden figured out if babies could distinguish English or Swedish—their mother tongue in more...