Yesterday's Wordle answer (game #1665) was… EIGHT. Going with a hunch is a perfectly valid way to play Wordle sometimes, ...

Today's Wordle answer on Thursday, January 8, 2026, is BLAST. -If you missed it, catch up with the answer to yesterday’s ...

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The Red Clay Strays are sick and tired of division. During their CMA Awards performance on Wednesday night, the Alabama country-rock band delivered a live call for unity with the song “People Hatin’.” ...

The mammals' mysterious clicks contain a stunning level of complexity, a new study shows. A group of sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) swims together in the Indian Ocean. For years, researchers ...

Most of us learnt that ‘a’ goes before consonants and ‘an’ before vowels – and most of us were only half-right. This Learning with TOI English Hack explains the real rule: it is not about letters, but ...

After poring over recordings from sperm whales in the Caribbean, UC Berkeley linguist GasperBegus had an unlikely breakthrough. According to a new study from Begus and his colleagues with Project CETI ...

Exactly what the whales may be saying to each other remains unknown—although working that out is CETI’s eventual goal. AS READERS OF “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” will know, humans are only ...

Sperm whales swimming off the coast of Dominica. The marine mammals have a complex communication system that scientists are working to decode. Amanda Cotton Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 ...

AS READERS OF “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” will know, humans are only the third-cleverest species on Earth. The first two places go to mice and dolphins. But perhaps Douglas Adams’s comic ...

CLAY COUNTY, Fla. – Clay County school teachers and the school district faced an impasse over salary negotiations. Clay County School District and the Clay County Education Association (CCEA) met on ...