Plants spend their entire lifetime rooted to one spot. When faced with a bad situation, such as a swarm of hungry herbivores or a viral outbreak, they have no option to flee but instead must fight to ...

What types of skills do first-year primary school children in education priority areas need most to learn to read? To find out, scientists conducted a study of 394 children at the end of their first ...

Although U.S. kids have made progress in decoding words, leading to a slight uptick in elementary-grade reading scores over the past two decades, they’re still shaky at the second part of ...

Students of English as a foreign language are often overwhelmed by the semantic possibilities of the verb “to get.” In English, it is possible to get home, to get hungry, to get a snack, to get seated ...

Berlin: Languages do not share a single history but different components evolve along distinct paths, say scientists who have found that grammatical structures change more quickly than vocabulary.