Welcome to Words for Nerds, our popular and addictive daily science word game. Think of it as science Wordle—a guessing jumble for every nerd, especially the busy life scientist looking to get a ...

People who ignore well established climate science prefer to consider themselves skeptics, but language is not on their side. Merriam-Webster defines scientific skepticism as "an impartial attitude of ...

We all do our best to be accurate, responsible users of the English language, but despite our best intentions, we’ve all had the occasional slip up ("literally" or "ironic", anyone?) It's particularly ...