There are words that linger on the tongue long after they’re spoken — ironically, “evanescent” is not one of them. Whether ...

For the first time in more than two decades, there's a new hard-copy update to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary. It adds more ...

The word “petrichor” is a noun defined as a pleasant smell that frequently accompanies the first rain after a long period of ...

Depending on your league setup, the playoffs are either here or one week away. This could be your last shot to indulge in second screen pleasure. (Though, the fine folks at DraftKings will ensure ...

Robin Rainwater may have been born in Sacramento, but ever since she moved to Woodland in the sixth grade, she has called Yolo County home.

"Precision in these measurements is critical, as even subtle discrepancies could signal deviations from the model — ...

It is something like the "Holy Grail" of physics: unifying particle physics and gravitation. The world of tiny particles is ...

New results from the MicroBooNE experiment at Fermilab found no evidence of a hypothetical fourth flavor of neutrino ...

Precipitation is simply when water falls down to Earth’s surface as part of the natural water cycle. Precipitation can take ...

Most of us first hear about the irrational number π (pi)—rounded off as 3.14, with an infinite number of decimal digits—in ...

New research from UBC Okanagan mathematically demonstrates that the universe cannot be simulated. Using Gödel’s incompleteness theorem, scientists found that reality requires “non-algorithmic ...