THERE has been a remarkable surge of global interest in Japan recently, a trend most visibly evidenced by the dramatic influx ...

Why do we use words like “natural” in economics? Or what about the word “utility”? The answer can be traced all the way back ...

In this installment of NPR's "Word of the Week" series we trace the origins of the "cravat" (borrowed from the French ...

From "dude" to "legit," these terms and sayings date back much farther than you might realize.

As situationships take off, so has this strange, silent phenomenon.

Unless you worked for Ford’s plastics, paint and vinyls division in the 1980s, you probably don’t know the name Jim Moylan. But you might well know the idea that made this unknown engineer who ...

There is big money to be made from pioneering inventions which go on to fly off the shelves for many years to come - yet not always for the original creators themselves. The daughter of the man who ...

Technology trends 2026point toward a major shift in how humans interact with systems, data, and machines. Automation is moving beyond simple task execution, with intelligent software agents beginning ...

Data travels across the cloud mainly as light via optical fibers made from solid glass. But that light—and thus that data—travels faster through air. “With hollow core fiber, the glass [has] an air ...