Skepticism toward results and methodology certainly belongs in hard science, the home of Uncertainty and Relativity, but skepticism based largely on word-play is more appropriate to post-structuralist ...

New studies show that first-born daughters really do have it the hardest — and that's great news for the rest of us.

This book is no longer available to purchase from Cambridge Core The fifteen essays collected in Hard Reading argue, first, that science fiction has its own ... “the right word”, preferring le mot ...

But calling everything in the world amazing or awesome is not living up to the potential of such a rich and creative language ...

Imagine an upside-down pyramid with, at the pointed bottom, the word "bones ... the very top of the inverted pyramid, as far from hard science as you can get, is…well, probably the purple ...

Alvin Chang of The Pudding used hard data to examine how the tone of science fiction in books ... a militarized authoritarian ...

Legal documents are notoriously difficult to parse, and a new study attempts to explain why: the so-called legalese that dominates this kind of writing is apparently adopted to convey a sense of ...

In other words — they looked at a lot of content. It's well-researched that the lure of the negative is stronger for people than the promise of something positive. One of behavioral science's ...

New research published in Science shows that for some people who ... but social media is siloing their opinions and making fake news hard to spot, and schools are the places to tackle this ...

NASA is not focused enough on the future, fails to think strategically and has a mismatch between ambitions and budget, says ...

In Atlanta and around the country, it's hard to move from talk to action when addressing racial and economic inequity.

The Science of Reading isn't so much a curriculum ... old approaches like queuing —where kids look at pictures in a book to guess the word— are being pushed out. Instead, when students flip ...