If you spend any amount of time online, you’ve probably picked up a few psychology terms without realizing it. Take “gaslighting”—which recently became so popular that it clinched the mantle of ...

U.S. millennials are rejecting suburbia and moving back to the city. That was a prevailing idea in 2019, when I started as the social sciences reporter at Science News. But when I began digging into a ...

Scientific papers containing lots of specialized terminology are less likely to be cited by other researchers. By Katherine Kornei Polje, nappe, vuggy, psammite. Some scientists who study caves might ...