“We continuously encounter new ways of describing the world around us, and the dictionary is a record of those changes.” Just ...

Our lexicographers monitor a huge range of sources to select which words and definitions to add,” Merriam-Webster's Peter ...

Fear is the response to being afraid, and it is caused by an undefinable number of factors, even those that do not threaten ...

October’s full moon is the closest supermoon of the year, at a distance of about 222,055 miles from Earth. September’s full ...

The Nobel Prize announcements this week heavily featured the use of AI, which has ignited discussion over traditional ...

I’m not a math guy, so when I come across numbers that I can understand it’s a surprising revelation. Most of the time, numbers get tossed into the junk drawer ...

Social media platforms are grappling with artificial intelligence in elections in the public eye during the final weeks of a heated presidential campaign.

Who decides what to name hurricanes — and why do they pick the names they do? Social media users have long claimed ...

A recent survey by the Annenberg Public Policy Center revealed that about a third of America’s adults cannot name the three branches of the federal government, which, by the way, are the executive, ...

Donald Trump struck a softer tone toward Detroit at a rally in the city after previously comparing it to a "developing nation." ...

Best of the Week, October 19: tough businesses, poor Q2 results, and foreign skirmishes. In journalism school, we were taught ...