"China’s first rocket recovery attempt achieved its expected technical objectives." A lot of articles that discuss China's private launch companies put the word "private" in inverted commas (like that ...

A lavish tomb of a noblewoman discovered in ancient Greece includes a mysterious symbol of lost power. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

Hmmm: Why do some players invert the Y-axis in video games? To many, it seems strange to make down mean up and up mean down. For inverters like me, it feels natural – the default setting is as awkward ...

Let’s talk about the em dash. Not the little innocent hyphen, not its slightly more confident cousin, the en dash. No, I’m talking about the 'EM dash,' that long, dramatic line that AI looooooves to ...

A fter America’s strikes intended to destroy Iran’s nuclear programme, one question is whether they succeeded. Another is how Iran will respond; all of its options are bad ones. In the West people ...

They are inaudible and unpronounceable. They do not exist in spoken English—they are at best a pause rather than a presence: no one (with apologies to those listening to this article in our audio ...

"Rend your cheeks and rub ashes into your hair," said The Spectator, for the semicolon, that "most elegant, elusive of punctuation marks", is all but dead. Use of the semicolon (in lists, or to join ...

Inverted crosses visible as Pope Francis lay in state symbolise Saint Peter, the first pontiff, and are not a reference to satanism. Pope Francis, the first Latin American leader of the Roman Catholic ...

An inverted yield curve indicates short-term rates exceed long-term, suggesting economic caution. Historically, consistent negative spreads on this curve have preceded recessions. Investors might ...

Royalty-free licenses let you pay once to use copyrighted images and video clips in personal and commercial projects on an ongoing basis without requiring additional payments each time you use that ...

Inverted papillomas are rare noncancerous tumors that arise in your nasal and paranasal sinuses. Surgery is usually required to remove them due to their potential to become cancerous. Some people with ...