I think I've already mentioned that I'm a word nerd and that I like being quizzed. If you're like me, you'll enjoy participating in a research project that seeks to measure vocabulary sizes. In other ...

One of the best and toughest parts of being a science writer is acting as a kind of jargon liaison. Weird, obscure, aggressively multisyllabic words appear in scientific discourse; I, wielding nothing ...

Attorney Demetry Pikrallidas discusses an illegal immigrant accused of multiple assaults on high schoolers in Fairfax County, ...