How do new words like “safe space,” “dogpile,” and “alt-right” make it into the dictionary? Journalist Stefan Fatsis finds ...

More than 1,000 words used as far back as 325BC to be collected for insight into past linguistic landscape It is not likely to be a hefty volume because the vast majority of the material has been lost ...

Research finds that friendship is less of an exchange of giving and receiving, and more of a support system for unpredictable times. Decades of research suggest that the quality of our social ties ...

Ethereum’s transaction volume has been overall on an upward trajectory, closing in its all time high of 1.9 million transactions in a single day in January 2024. The latest surge is drawing attention ...

Section 1. Policy and Purpose. Over the last 5 years, confidence that scientists act in the best interests of the public has fallen significantly. A majority of researchers in science, technology, ...

If you’re playing audio on a desktop replacement laptop with a six-speaker-strong configuration, something like the Razer Blade 18 with its four woofers, two tweeters, and additional three smart amps, ...

Megan Molteni reports on discoveries from the frontiers of genomic medicine, neuroscience, and reproductive tech. She joined STAT in 2021 after covering health and science at WIRED. You can reach ...

COVID-19 vaccination has been the subject of immense scrutiny and misinformation since the vaccines were first administered in the U.S. nearly four years ago. In the first year alone, it is estimated ...

Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Somer G. Anderson is CPA, doctor of accounting, and an accounting and finance professor who ...

Astronomers are proposing a new, more quantitative definition of what makes a planet. The new definition looks more directly at the object's mass — but it would still leave Pluto out of the running.