Listen carefully to a spoken conversation and you’ll notice that the speakers use a lot of little quasi-words—mm-hmm, um, huh ...

Other interjections serve as what some linguists call “continuers,” such as mm-hmm — signals from the listener that they’re paying attention and the speaker should keep going. Once again, the form of ...

Ireland’s seabed carries our data, power and gas — but political inaction leaves us dangerously open to attack ...

He gave the examples of two Russian-flagged ships, the Umka and the Bakhtemir, that were detected off the coast of Galway in April 2023, while in May of that year four Russian naval vessels ...

The Creative Pebble Nova is great for the kind of sound stage or surround-sound audio that really benefits immersive gaming.

In the Bay Area, as elsewhere, the working classes have seen their jobs go overseas and their neighborhoods become ...

A nonprofit called Connected Coasts is helping save the Galveston Bay ecosystem by releasing water into the bay from other parts of the state.

In 2025, surely Cadillac could have come up with a better name than Optiq. According to the online Scrabble Word Finder, ...

The injury put Davies out for a ‘lengthy period of time’ and it has the potential to put Canada on the outs with its best ...

The worst thing about open world games in 2011 was that they were so popular other games were being dunked in them for no good reason, with L.A. Noire and Mafia 2 perfect examples. Both would be ...