How can we improve everyone's ideas about the nature of science? I think there are three words that we shouldn't use. 1. “Hypothesis” In my opinion, this one is the worst. The worst science word ever!

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 ...

Like fashion fads, climate-science words rise and fall in popularity, finds a new study. And how frequently these scientific words, such as biodiversity and paleoclimate, filter out of journals and ...

Proper language is crucial to the scientific community. It helps answer questions and convey big ideas to the general public. Often, though, specialized scientific words have very specific meanings ...

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Scientists appear to be self-censoring by omitting the term "climate change" in public grant summaries. An NPR analysis of grants awarded by the National Science Foundation found a steadily decreasing ...

This line from “Unweaving Science,” the opening track of the spoken word album Experimental Words, illuminates the connections between science and art. The album, an eclectic collection of 10 poems ...

If you want to sound like you just stepped out of a Slayer show, prattle on about demons, flames and ashes (but maybe don't use the word prattle). Leslie Katz led a team that explored the intersection ...

A new study suggests the way a language divides up color space can be influenced by contact with other languages. Tsimane' people who learned Spanish as a second language began to classify blue and ...