The Scripps National Spelling Bee will kick off on May 28 as 245 spellers descend on National Harbor, Maryland, for four days of competition. Ahead of the event, a word selection panel gathers to ...

Beekeepers across the United States lost more than 55% of their colonies last year, the highest loss rate since records started being kept in 2011. A new study from University of Vermont scientists ...

If you weren't playing along at home during Thursday night's final, take our mini-Bee quiz, which uses words from the real thing. "Éclaircissement." And with that word, 13-year-old Faizan Zaki won the ...