Science

...genetically Hungarians seem to bear only a limited genetic connection with speakers of the other Uralic languages.

Mitogenomic data indicate admixture components of Central-Inner Asian and Srubnaya origin in the conquering Hungarians. (It's PLOS One, open access) The authors are Hungarian.

I have wondered about the Hungarian language and how its structure might impact the way people learn, mostly because of "The Martians," the large number of great scientists who emigrated from Hungary to the United States. (One scientist sometimes included among them is George Olah, whose energy ideas about a closed carbon cycle using MeOH/DME dominate my environmental thinking.)

Basque is an entirely different issue of course; I feel I've heard it discussed as the the remnants of early European languages, but to be honest, this is just an impression I've had. Frankly I know very little about it, which is why I suppose this paper caught my eye and I posted reference to it here.