As the semanticist S.I. Hayakawa stressed in his classic book Language in Thought and Action, words are not the things they represent. Words are symbols. It’s the manipulation of those symbols that ...

Every measurement we make, be it for length, time, temperature, or electric current, needs a standard unit so that results ...

The evaluating criteria for the Choices healthy food symbol are to be reviewed and potentially adjusted, following the establishment of a new international scientific committee. The Choices Programme ...

This essay is part of Demystifying the Mind, a special report on the new science of consciousness. The next installments will appear in the February 25 and March 10 issues of Science News. When ...

SCIENCE is under assault. In the US and throughout the world, rhetoric about evolution, stem cells, global warming and other controversial and cutting-edge technologies often transcends legitimate ...

HANOI, VIETNAM - Media OutReach Newswire - 27 October 2025 - Professor Sir Richard Henry Friend, Chair of the VinFuture Prize ...