"Pernicious nonsense!" exclaims Professor J. Frank Parnell, the ill-fated nuclear physicist in the 1984 movie Repo Man. It is wonderful little phrase, which is well suited to application in litigation ...

America's fierce debate over gun control usually takes place against the backdrop of the second amendment of the US constitution - seen as enshrining the rights of all citizens to bear arms. Now a ...

Language is like a living organism, it changes, grow, and evolves over time. And yet, a few words from times long past have been able to continue being a part of our everyday language, testifying that ...

Of the record numbers of university places offered to students this year, a few thousand were for "Oxbridge", that oft-used amalgam for the universities of Cambridge and Oxford. But were it not for a ...

An ancient English cemetery filled with headless skeletons holds proof that the victims lost their heads a long way from home, archaeologists say. Unearthed between 2004 and 2005 in the northern city ...

For the past hundred or so years, classics students who looked up the ancient Greek verb χέζω in a commonly used English dictionary would find it modestly translated as "Ease oneself, do one's need." ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) has brought ancient languages to life, such as Ancient Greek and Old English, by demonstrating ...