Writers can misuse or overuse hyphens, em dashes, colons and, to some editors' disgust, semicolons. Using a period is a simple solution.

It goes to the effect, “When kanji for negative prefixes such as ‘hi,’ ‘mu,’ ‘mi’ and ‘fu’ are used in ‘jukugo’ (kanji compounds), the resulting words rarely mean something ...

Quite frankly, Amaechi and El-Rufai were dead right. Nigerians are too docile and possess incredibly short-spanned memory. It ...

Irish poet and playwright, Oscar Wilde, in his lowest moment in prison, drew a comparison of how he sank from being one of the greatest writers of the late 20th century, into a bisexual pedophile. Son ...

We've probably all come across the superfood label somewhere in the grocery store. But, are superfoods a real thing or is it ...

Robinson, associate professor of materials science and engineering in Cornell Engineering and senior author of the study, overcame this challenge by employing “magic-sized clusters” made from ...

The researchers conducted a systematic investigation of vitamin crystal formation. Out of 31 vitamin compounds tested, 20 successfully formed high-quality crystals through controlled temperature and ...

Organic chemistry is the study of the synthesis, structure, reactivity and properties of the diverse group of chemical compounds primarily constructed of carbon. All life on earth is carbon-based ...