A Column Really Only Needs Your Motherliness Sometimes. No, that doesn't at all do it. A Column Rests On Nothing You Might Suspect. Still much too obscure. A Column, Right Or Not, Yields Many ...

Scientists have an awful tendency to overuse complex, confusing, or otherwise indecipherable acronyms in their work. That means the bafflingly-complex acronyms like ESPRESSO (Echelle Spectrograph for ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Reading a scientific paper can sometimes feel like deciphering a ...

Science is becoming more difficult to understand due to the sheer number of acronyms, long sentences, and impenetrable jargon in academic writing. Not only does such overcomplicated language alienate ...

If you want to succeed in science, it helps to have good ideas, to be good at experiments, and so forth. But what you really need is a knack for a good acronym. If you can come up with a string of ...

Whenever I turn to the business page of the newspaper, I notice acronyms which I do not know the meaning of, such as NCLT or MCLR, and need to go on the Web to understand what they are (NCLT stands ...