How do babies decode all the spoken sounds they hear to learn words and their meanings? An “alien” language may provide a clue, according to new research to be presented at the 161st annual meeting of the Acoustical Society of America in Seattle, Wash.

Pittcon is the world's largest annual Conference and Exposition for laboratory science. It is organized by The Pittsburgh Conference on Analytical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy, a Pennsylvania not-for-profit educational corporation which is comprised of the Spectroscopy Society of Pittsburgh (SSP) and the Society for Analytical Chemists of Pittsburgh (SACP).

BOSTON, May 4, 2010 — What better venue than Boston — with its famed medical institutions — for a major scientific conference with the theme "Chemistry for Preventing & Combating Disease"?