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 ...

In other words, it “glues” them together. That feeling of numbness when an arm or leg has “gone to sleep” – is scientifically known as obdormition. Who knew? While we’re on the matter ...

Often, the approach to learning them is rote memorization, learning to recognize the word as a whole. But as the science of reading movement has spread, researchers and advocates have taken aim at ...

Some educators and parents are pushing back on proposed changes to Iowa’s K-12 science standards that changes the phrases “biological evolution” and “climate change” to “biological change over time” ...