Brain teasers are a fun and challenging way to improve our thinking skills. They come in many different forms, such as solving an equation, finding a hidden object or cracking the solution. Today we ...

In tenth grade, I read a biography of Ernest Hemingway. I used to claim to have read a lot of books I hadn’t read, and I thought that if I read Hemingway’s biography I wouldn’t have to actually read ...

Testimony from medics, morgue and graveyard staff reveals huge state effort to conceal systematic killing of protesters On Thursday 8 January, in a midsize Iranian town, Dr Ahmadi’s* phone began to ...

"I was sobbing and shaking uncontrollably," the 29-year-old pediatrician said in a witness statement seen by PEOPLE va.gov; CRAIG LASSIG/EPA/Shutterstock A doctor who fought to treat Alex Pretti after ...

In a previous post, I examined the psychological power of conjunctions, especially that warm, fuzzy, inclusive conjunction: and. Here we expand our focus to the psychological power of words in general ...

Have you been seeing 3:33 on your phone or laptop for a week straight now? Is your coffee order always $3.33, no matter what coffee shop you go to? When you're randomly watching a sports game, like ...

Jason Chun is a CNET writer covering a range of topics in tech, home, wellness, finance and streaming services. He is passionate about language and technology, and has been an avid writer/reader of ...

If your starter word contains a rarely used letter, rethink your strategy. Here are the most commonly used letters in the alphabet. CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture ...