You can usually find him reading and drinking coffee or watching a TV series with his wife and their dog. Wordle asks players to figure out a five-letter word in six or fewer guesses (we have a ...

Puzzles may do more than entertain us. Source: Ben_Kerckx/Pixabay, used with permission. It may seem like a no-brainer, but the effects of brain training—using tools like word and number games ...

The word has a hackneyed history. An ad for “the incredible edible egg” ran in the 1970s. The show “That’s Incredible!” was on television from 1980-84.

Dogs are good at learning new words. But researchers say dogs don't understand small sound differences in words such as "dog" or "dig." It may explain why most don't learn a large number of words.

The following is an excerpt from Thinking in Numbers: On Life, Love, Meaning, and Math, by Daniel Tammet, out now from Little, Brown.

Overall, participants made 2.5 times more fixations when reading short numbers compared to words of equal length. They made ...

An anthropological linguist has shown that the language of the Piraha, an Amazonian tribe, lacks number words and as a result the people have a difficult time performing common quantitative tasks.

Fresh off his high-profile collaboration with Drake, rapper Yeat has said that sometimes he finds it easier to communicate with numbers than words.. In an interview with 032c magazine, per news ...

It's also unclear how many accounts could have been caught up in this mess—Activision says a "small number," but who knows what that means when it regularly hands out bans in the tens of thousands.