Free Expression: Five words including ‘affordability,’ ‘socialism’ and ‘redistricting’ took on new, politically convenient meanings in 2025. Photo: Aaron Schwartz/Reuters/Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty ...

Have you ever felt like you’re spending your life trying to live up to others’ expectations? Well, you might want to give the funeral theory a read. The “funeral theory” has been trending across ...

When you’re going through a breakup, it’s sometimes comforting to hear a cliché or two — however cheesy they may be. It feels nice when a well-meaning friend reminds you there are “other fish in the ...

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Birds, the warm-blooded and feathered vertebrates, are being used to put romantic partners to the test. A relationship experiment dubbed the "bird theory" is making the rounds on social media. It ...

Scanning the crowd at a fancy soiree may reveal a wide array of neckties, each fastened with a highly complex mathematical object masquerading as fashion. An entire field of mathematics is devoted to ...

Scientists studying the cosmos often speculate about hypothetical forces that might explain peculiar data or results. For instance, some astronomers have suggested that our solar system has an extra ...

The burnt toast theory is a metaphor for life that helps people interpret minor inconveniences as having positive ripple effects or a “silver lining.” It’s related to the butterfly effect. While not a ...

Time, not space plus time, might be the single fundamental property in which all physical phenomena occur, according to a new theory by a University of Alaska Fairbanks scientist. The theory also ...