For decades, journalists have worked to separate the language in news stories about abortion from the political rhetoric used by those fighting to criminalize or decriminalize the medical procedure.

Each year, new words find their way into the general American English lexicon. Even if we try to avoid them, these new slang terms are spreading and being used all around us.Related video above: RETRO ...

What happens to language when two populations come together? A new study in Science Advances has sought to answer that question with the help of human genetics. In fact, in a first-of-its-kind ...

From "yeet" to "social distancing," new words and phrases constantly emerge and evolve in American English. But how do these neologisms—newly coined terms—gain acceptance and become part of mainstream ...

Debi Ryan insists that bad days are few and far between in her line of work as a school-based speech language pathologist. The good days, she says, are abundant — thanks in great part to her ongoing ...

This story is from The Pulse, a weekly health and science podcast. Find it on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. Joshua Plotkin, a biology professor at the University of ...

Every year, Dictionary.com’s Word of the Year reflects the cultural moments and trends that shaped us, offering a snapshot of how language evolves alongside society. For 2024, the chosen word is ...

I’m a product of the post-World War II baby boom and a self-confessed language aficionado. I certainly am not a linguistic expert, but over the past few years I have noticed something seems to be ...

Olaf Lipinski receives funding from UK Research and Innovation Centre for Doctoral Training in Machine Intelligence for Nano-electronic Devices and Systems. In the 2016 science fiction movie Arrival, ...