UC-Santa Cruz faculty members are working on groundbreaking software that would eliminate the middleman for young readers who get stuck on a word while browsing the Web or reading online texts.

(PhysOrg.com) -- Where would we be without the web? It is such an immense and rich source of information; we feel that every answer is out there. All it takes is a bit of searching...

Anatoly Liberman, an internationally acclaimed linguistics professor at the University of Minnesota recently had his book “Word Origins... and How We Know Them” published by Oxford University Press as a kind of respite from a more extensive project, a

The Monroe County Sheriff's Department plans to deploy a new tool to combat drunk driving this holiday weekend. The DWI Processing Van is equipped with a DataMaster breathalyzer machine, computers linked to the county’s system, and wireless fingerprint

I asked a much-acclaimed headteacher the other day about the secret of his success. Consistency, he said. Schools did best when they had consistent approaches to behaviour, teaching and learning. People thought consistency was dull; in fact, it was exciti