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word of the week Tag Archive

Word of the Week: Hypochondriac

by • 6th May 2018

Ng Yi Min explains its a matter of mind over matter....

Word of the Week: Cephalopod

by • 12th February 2018

Jordan Oloman delves into the deep to discover our word of the week....

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Word of the Week: Christmas

by • 11th December 2017

Science writer Ng Yi Min explains the meaning of Christmas....

Word of the Week: Retrotransposons

by • 27th November 2017

Retrotransposons multiply and reproduce, but what are they? Georgina Howlett explains......

Word of the Week: Collywobbles

by • 13th March 2017

Georgina Howlett tackles her anxiety and unpicks this week’s word of the week....

Word of the Year: SMOMBIES

by • 16th May 2016

If you’ve read Fahrenheit 451, you might remember a passage where he talks about a woman, almost catatonic, oblivious to the world thanks to a radio in her ear. This sort of...

Word of the Week: BORBORYGMUS

by • 9th May 2016

Word of the Week: BORBORYGMUS...

Word of the Week: INCANDESCENCE

by • 3rd May 2016

Incandescence stems from Latin, meaning ‘to glow white’. It describes a special type of thermal radiation, when visible light is emitted from a hot object. Visible...

Word of the Week: PHOTOVOLTAIC

by • 25th April 2016

Sarah Main explains what "photovoltaic" means...

Word of the Week: Amazonia

by • 9th March 2016

Amazonia, or the Amazon rainforest, is the world’s largest rainforest. It covers an area of around 2,124,000 square miles across 9 countries, including Brazil, Peru, Colombia,...