Our metaphorical 'cat' has seven lives: it would take seven consecutive errors to turn the '0' into a '1'! This is the sense in which the superposition of antimony spin states in opposite directions ...

Huge project by Glasgow University researchers plots thirteen centuries of startling cognitive connections Metaphor is not the sole preserve of Shakespearean scholarship or high literary endeavour but ...

Along with providing advances in medicine and explaining physical phenomena, scientific experiments often serve as powerful metaphors for cause-effect relationships. Experiments are, after all, a bit ...

Felicity Deamer has previously received funding from the AHRC (AH/L004070/1) 2014-2016, and the Wellcome Trust (WT108720) 2016-2019. Figurative language, by which the speaker intends to communicate ...

Among a cadre of healthcare researchers, a debate persists over whether you should call a cancer patient’s efforts to cope with treatment a “battle” or a “journey.” Which do you think is better? One ...

TYPING “love” into Google, I find the Wikipedia entry, a “relationship calculator” and Lovefilm, a DVD rental service. Doing the same in YossarianLives, a new search engine due to launch this year, I ...