For all the world’s linguistic diversity, human languages still obey some universal patterns. These run even deeper than ...

Jo Craven McGinty is science bureau chief for The Wall Street Journal. Previously, she was senior talent editor for the managing editor. Before that, she spent nearly eight years writing The ...

Checking the word count on Google Docs helps track document length. Follow this quick guide to easily find and use the word count feature. Word count serves as one way to measure the length of a ...

In an open society, perspectives on reality confront one another in forceful competition. Each may contain some particle of ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...

When I was a machine operator, my supervisor knew I wanted to move into management. One day he asked if I wanted to spend time in production control developing a better way to update and deliver ...

Microsoft Word came out during Ronald Reagan's first term in the Oval Office, and in the decades that have passed between then and now, it has become one of Microsoft's most important and ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom said that once the true toll of destruction was known, the fires would be the worst natural disaster in U.S. history. Photo: Mark Edward Harris/Zuma Press As raging ...

Often, the approach to learning them is rote memorization, learning to recognize the word as a whole. But as the science of reading movement has spread, researchers and advocates have taken aim at ...

Susie Dent joins Michael Rosen to talk about her lifelong fascination with words and their origins. It's a programme bringing some apricity, which is one of Susie's favourite words Show more Susie ...

Representatives of the Israel Antiquities Authority are expected to aid in the removal of the stone from the southern area of the wall. A nearly empty Western Wall plaza is seen in Jerusalem's ...