Acronyms

Really makes you think.

I always believed IMHO meant “in my humble opinion.” It has, however, come to my attention that many people think it…

The sounding rocket you can see above will be launched from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility on the 4th of December,…

Astronomy loves acronyms. Some of them are evocative, charming, and memorable. Others are more laboured in their…

The FBI cares what you have to say on Twitter. It cares so much that it created an 83-page document about "Twitter…

Oh, dear. This probably doesn't mean what you think it means.

DARPA, the Department of Defense's R&D agency, has two new projects: BaTMAN (Biochronicity and Temporal Mechanisms…

We bandy about acronyms like EDGE, GSM, and EV-DO all the time when talking about cellphones and smartphones. We…