Science & Technology
Science and technology has its own unique vocabulary that can be challenging to learn. Explore these articles to learn more about tough science terms.
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Do You Know the Difference Between Amphibians and Reptiles?
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Was Saussure wrong?
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Do babies speak with an accent?
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How did this new species of monkey get its name, and what does it mean?
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When Dictionaries Attack: How Hackers Use Dictionaries to Guess Passwords
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Does the smell of bacon affect the meaning of a word?
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Would you learn a new language if it would help your health?
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Why Did Facebook Trademark The Word “Book”? Is That Legal?
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Why Did China’s Internet Censors Flag The Word Salt?
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Can computers understand online conversations?
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Where will Los Angeles be in 50 million years? Beijing?
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What parts of the brain distinguish words from sentences?
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How do computers help decode inscrutable ciphers?
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How does the brain compute language? Will it turn us into cyborgs?
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What Are CAPTCHAs?
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When did the New York Times first use an emoticon?
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Can how a baby cries predict their future language skills?
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What does “Atlantis” mean? And why is the Space Shuttle Atlantis named after something underwater?
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Why Is The Secretive Military Base called “Area 51”?
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Will Handwriting Survive in the Digital Era?
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Words To Remember Every 13 Years
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Typewriters Were Originally Created To Help The Blind
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Do bilingual babies actually have more brain power?
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How Exactly Does Tourette’s Syndrome Affect Language?
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How did the speech disorder “stuttering” get its name, and what does it literally mean?
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A New Planet? Perhaps. What Does The Name “Tyche” Mean?
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Do funky fonts actually help you remember?
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“Hanny’s Voorwerp” Is A Green Space Blob With An Unusual Name
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What Is The Highly Dangerous Meaning Of “Vitriol”?
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What’s the infamous chemical that made a NASA new life discovery so amazing?
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Who Is The “Nobel” In “Nobel Prize”?
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The Painful Meaning of “Turf Toe,” “Metatarsalphalangeal Joint Sprain,” or “Death Toe”
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“UFOs?” What bizarre event spawned the phrase “flying saucer?”
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What Does QWERTY Stand For?
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Why Are Planes Named After Numbers?
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What Exactly Do People Mean By “The Dow?”
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How do storms like Tropical Storm Bonnie get their names?
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What word do scientists use to describe the most ginormous star ever discovered?
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What Do Bar Code Numbers Mean?
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Big Vitamin B6-cancer news raises the question: What do the B and 6 mean?
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What Is A Quadruple-Witching Day (Or Hour)?
