Wordle's creator returns with a new trickier word game.

Research reveals that some prairie dog alarm calls encode remarkably specific information about humans and other predators.

When you’re chronodefiant, there’s no end to the compliments you can heap upon yourself! And the older you get, the more ...

Etna, a fiery giant that dominates the Sicilian landscape as well as a protagonist of several myths. But… if we ...

Today’s word, Gramercy, is an expression to express gratitude or surprise, literally meaning “great thanks.” In an era of rapid-fire "Thx" and automated email replies, let's look back at a word that ...

Language has an incredible ability to encapsulate human attributes in a single word. Among them is a word ‘perspicacity’ which stands as an example for such linguistic decoding of human attributes as ...

Word of the Day: Schadenfreude — Why People Feel Pleasure in Others’ Failures, Psychology Behind It, and How It Shapes Public Reactions Schadenfreude is not a fringe psychological idea. It is a widely ...

Some of the earliest uses of the words “analogy” and “analogue” related to medical matters, the former in Philip Barrough’s textbook, The Methode of Physicke (1583) and the latter in William Whewell’s ...

Clanker, rust bucket, tinskin — slang words used to put down robots are on the rise. As AI and robots threaten to replace human work and maybe even humans, the recent popularity of anti-robot lingo ...