MIT scientists have achieved the first-ever lab synthesis of verticillin A, a complex fungal compound discovered in 1970. Its delicate structure stalled chemists for decades, despite differing from ...

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Former HGTV star Nicole Curtis is trying to clear things up after she was canceled last month when footage surfaced of her saying a racial slur. However, her recent appearance on “The Breakfast Club” ...

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According to one TikToker, the word is the melding of two words: doppelgänger and chopped Mr. Lindsay/TikTok; @sparklejumpropefein/TikTok TikTok users are buzzing about the new word “Choppleganger,” a ...

In an age of polarized debates and dug-in opinions, obdurate feels more relevant than ever. It’s the word that captures our cultural stalemates: firm, unmovable, sometimes admirable and often ...

After poring over recordings from sperm whales in the Caribbean, UC Berkeley linguist Gasper Begus had an unlikely breakthrough. According to a new study from Begus and his colleagues with Project ...

I recently spent some time in Europe. I love how that sounds — as if I were a jet-setter crisscrossing the globe on a whim. That’s hardly the case, alas. One of my kids is spending a semester in ...

When things don’t make sense in the quantum realm, scientists don’t always get to find a good explanation for what they’re seeing. Many times, they arrive at a solution by accident—something that ...