James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...

Pedantry is a desirable characteristic in a lawyer, to my mind. Lawyers do, after all, spend much time arguing profitably about semantics. Journalists should be pedants too. Paul Rogerson I wrestled ...

OLYMPIA, Wash. - Washington is now the fourth state in the nation to remove use of the word 'alien' from its laws when referring to individuals who are not citizens of the United States. Governor Bob ...

If you've ever tried to plug a standard USB cord or connector in while not looking, fumbling around with the connection altogether, you know it can sometimes be difficult to plug in. That's because ...

How would we recognize a message from an alien civilization if we cannot understand its language? By combining information theory, Zipf’s Law, and studies of human and dolphin communication, ...

In Stefan Fatsis’s capacious, and at times score-settling, personal history of the reference book, he reveals what the dictionary can still tell us about language in modern life A page taken from the ...

SAN MATEO, Calif., March 2, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- English just installed a software update. In the 2026 Winter Word Drop, Dictionary.com added more than 1,500 new entries, with science and technology ...

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has directed the release of government files in an apparent attempt to answer a question many have asked: Are aliens real? In a post on social media platform Truth ...

WASHINGTON, D.C., USA — Former U.S. President Barack Obama said he did not see evidence that aliens “have made contact with us,” after sending social media abuzz by saying aliens were real on a ...