NaN Hours Ago · Hungary, Hungary

Dog brains track consonant patterns in speech, a first outside humans

Dog brains segment speech into words in a way previously seen only in humans, a new study from Hungary finds. This suggests that efficient speech processing is not necessarily a consequence of humans' unique language abilities: Regular exposure to speech alone can reshape how the brain functions, even in a mammalian species evolutionarily distant from humans. The discovery by the Neuroethology of Communication Lab at the ELTE Department of Ethology in Budapest is published in Science.

NaN Hours Ago · Orillia, Canada

Burlington woman faces 65 additional charges for fraud, theft at multiple hospitals

Ontario Provincial Police say a 34-year-old woman who was first arrested in May following complaints of theft and fraud at an Orillia hospital is now facing 65 new charges. Police say they identified additional victims and executed several search warrants, and have charged Nassim Eronn of Burlington with 36 counts of fraud and 14 counts of theft, among other offences.