These aren't obscure SAT words or academic jargon—they're terms you've likely used dozens of times, yet 95% of people freeze ...

Hundreds of people saw firsthand that the word, “shelter,” is too small to describe Lewiston’s new “rescue center” built to ...

The big thinkers at Aperture analyze the most complex words in the English language and their meanings.

A new study suggests that language may rely less on complex grammar than previously thought. Every time we speak, we’re ...

Loralyn LaBombard is the only reading specialist at Bow Memorial School, a middle school serving grades 5-8 in a leafy town outside Concord, N.H. In the world of literacy education, that is not an ...

Most intervention programs and research-to-practice guides for supporting struggling readers are aimed at elementary school children. But many older readers have trouble with basic skills, too—and ...

There are words that are easy to understand, and then, there are words like “recondite.” The thing about “recondite” is that it doesn’t just describe something obscure and complex to figure out, it is ...

In his laboratory at the University of Poitiers in France, Abderrazak El Albani contemplates the rock glittering in his hands. To the untrained eye, the specimen resembles a piece of golden tortellini ...

The genetic roots of a disease or disorder do not always grow into clear cut, easily diagnosed clinical features. Even if a parent and child have the same genetic marker implicated in an outcome, such ...