At the Macmillan Dictionary blog, the ever-thoughtful Stan Carey has a post on fault-finding in language, in which he explains how the impulse to correct errors may “target the wrong people.” ...

When a flaw or a mistake is made about something or someone, what happens next is quite interesting and important to understand. First, one might admit the truth of a blunder. Then, if possible, begin ...

Scientists are surveying "mass wasting," a unique geological phenomenon of the Red Sea, to identify active fault-line activity along fossil coral reefs and sediment levels. They say that their ...

Russell McLendon is a science writer with expertise in the natural environment, humans, and wildlife. He holds degrees in journalism and environmental anthropology. Within minutes of any major ...

As there are many sorts of men, and as the same man has many different moods, so there are many kinds of happiness. There are elevated pleasures, as everybody has heard ; and there are low pleasures, ...

Scientists and the oil and gas industry have known about induced seismicity, or induced earthquakes, since the 1960s. One early and telling example was the disposal of warfare chemical waste in a deep ...

Survey wind turbine manufacturers about how to calculate wind farm availability and you will get countless different definitions and exceptions to the rule. “There is a discrepancy between the ways ...

How often have you looked for a problem in the wrong place only to find that it originates somewhere that you’d never have thought of in the first place? I’ve been reading a few of Sir Arthur Conan ...

In the wake of the devastating loss of life in Japan, the urgent question is where the next big earthquake will hit. To answer it, geologist Prof. Zvi Ben-Avraham and his doctoral student Gal Hartman ...