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Do your genes define who you are?

By Lucia De Hoyos / 6 November 2025

The sound of genetics often has a fatalistic ring to it. But is that true?


When you grow up learning two languages at once, how do they influence each other?

By Christina Papoutsi / 21 October 2025

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Bilingual Bonus: How Similar Languages Boost Vocabulary 

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Raising a child is full of challenges. My brother and his wife recently had their


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Aslı Özyürek: from postdoc to director

By Izabela Jordanoska / 12 September 2025

It was the 90s, and the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics was still growing into


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