The specialized meaning of science words can lead to public confusion when the media apply scientific terms out of context. A poignant example recently occurred when the media reported the Antarctic ...

You probably use science words every day without thinking twice about them. Someone might tell you they have a theory about why traffic was terrible, or a company might brag about making a quantum ...

Nobody knows how men began to talk, but plenty of scholars have advanced strangely nicknamed theories about it. Last week an eminent psychologist, Edward Lee Thorndike of Columbia University, entered ...