Microbiology is all about studying the tiny world of germs, bacteria, viruses, and more. Scientists use abbreviations to keep ...

Are you a parent to a Gen Alpha kid who can’t stop repeating incomprehensible slang terms? Don’t worry, you’re not alone.

Dolphins are one of the smartest animals on Earth and have been revered for thousands of years for their intelligence, emotions and social interaction with humans. Now Google is using artificial ...

A lab develops brain wave decoder that may help in spinal cord injury rehabilitation. When a person sustains an injury to the spinal cord, the normal communication between the brain and the spinal ...

My brother’s text messages can read like fragments of an ancient code: “hru,” “wyd,” “plz”—truncated, cryptic, and never quite satisfying to receive. I’ll often find myself ...

I wanted to know whether these clipped missives might undermine genuine dialogue, exploring the unspoken signals behind digital shorthand. As we gathered data, surveyed people and set up ...

In a survey we conducted of 150 American texters ages 18 to 65, 90.1% reported regularly using abbreviations in their daily messages, and 84.2% believed these shortcuts had either a positive ...

Learn the meaning behind the most-searched text abbreviations of 2025, such as FAFO, SMH, and PMO, based on recent Google Trends data. Language is constantly evolving, and text abbreviations are ...

Abbreviations vary slightly by track or region, but these are the standard ones in most North American racing forms. Gate Position/Number of Horses in the race: Example: 10/10. The horse started in ...

and online shorthand. (So much so that I sometimes need multiple Google searches to decode my daughter’s messages.) If you kick off many messages with “btw” and end them with “ttyl ...