Irksome, a word originating from Middle English, captures mild, persistent frustrations of daily life. It describes annoying ...

A short sentence can fade fast. Another can hang around for minutes, or years. New research from MIT suggests the difference ...

My list of medically related anniversaries for 2026 includes William Withering’s Botany, The Botanical Arrangement of All the Vegetables Naturally Growing in Great Britain , which was published 250 ...

Language feels simple when we use it. We talk, we text, we listen, and words seem to appear naturally from thought. But the ...

My job is to help them move beyond their assumptions, in literature and everything else.

Would you like a robot companion? The criminal trade in ancient objects Have you ever seen a whale? What makes a good citizen? Are we too fixated on protein? Did a civilisation exist on Earth before ...

When students use playful materials to build a physical object that represents their thinking, they grapple with texts in new ...

Let Johnny and Inel get your class up and moving, while they learn about adjectives and adverbs. Through a song and routine, children will learn how to write better stories using adjectives and ...

Li, H. (2026) A Study on the Impact of New Media on College Students’ Oral English Learning —Taking English Content Creators on Bilibili as an Example. Open Access Library Journal, 13, 1-18. doi: ...

Objectives Outward medical tourism is when people seek medical treatment in a different country to the one they live in. We ...

Six years after the financial industry pledged to use trillions to fight climate change and reshape finance, its efforts have largely collapsed. By David Gelles Over two decades after negotiations ...