The roots of Russia's invasion of Ukraine go back decades and run deep. The current conflict is more than one country fighting to take over another; it is — in the words of one U.S. official — a shift ...

Cambridge Dictionary chooses one word every year that explains how people think, behave and communicate. The word of the year 2025 is parasocial. This word became important because millions of people ...

The Chicago Manual of Style is an American English style guide published by the University of Chicago Press. The Manual’s guidelines for publishing, style and usage, and citations and indexes—known as ...

In 1942, the Manhattan Project needed to create a chain reaction—a crucial step toward proving that it would be possible to make an atomic bomb. The scientists achieved this sustained nuclear reaction ...

The Dark Forest theory is one proposed solution to the famed Fermi Paradox, which has bewitched astronomers for more than half a century. To put it concisely, the paradox asks if the cosmos is nearly ...

It’s official: “Six Seven” Just earned the title of Dictionary.com’s 2025 Word of the Year. But even as the word is officially added to the cultural lexicon, it has already been quietly removed ...