Scientists witnessed the first stages of a common accent developing in Antarctica among its ever-changing population of scientists who spend months together at research stations on the isolated continent. The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access the full content.

Antarctica has no native population or permanent residents, but it does have a transitory community of scientists and support staff who live there for part of the year on a rotational basis. In the summer months, there are typically around 5,000 people living in Antarctica, but that drops to just 1,000 in the winter.

While most scientists are there to study things like climate and biodiversity, this extreme living environment has created the perfect petri dish to research certain

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