According to one TikToker, the word is the melding of two words: doppelgänger and chopped Jordan Greene is Society and Culture writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2023. Her ...

We often hear fascinating stories about how things originated: the universe, the wheel, even pizza. But when it comes to the words we toss around every single day without a second thought, it’s wild ...

When things don’t make sense in the quantum realm, scientists don’t always get to find a good explanation for what they’re seeing. Many times, they arrive at a solution by accident—something that ...

There are words that are easy to understand, and then, there are words like “recondite.” The thing about “recondite” is that it doesn’t just describe something obscure and complex to figure out, it is ...

Hollywood makes death seem dramatic. The hero is dying, yet they miraculously muster up the energy to utter something profound, some last-minute understanding of the world. But in reality, death is ...

An estimated 31,000 plus Kaiser Permanente workers are on strike as of Monday morning after union leaders say Kaiser officials failed to bargain in good faith. Jacqueline Sarkissian reports for the ...

Stephen Colbert brought back a fan-favorite bit from “The Colbert Report” on Thursday night, in an effort to help audiences figure out how to survive censorship by the Trump administration. This ...

Using genomic and transcriptional data has greatly improved the understanding of multiple aspects of human physiology. A new paper in PNAS reports on molecular-level associations of co-occurring ...