Have you ever wondered whether left-handers are better at mirror-writing than right-handers? Several studies have investigated this question.

The T20 World Cup is almost at an end. As many as 48 out of the 55 games have been played. Four matches are left in the Super ...

If not for the work of two scholars, Alice Kober and Michael Ventris, the ancient Greek script Linear B would likely still be a mystery.

More than 40,000 years ago, Ice Age humans were carving repeated patterns of dots, lines, and crosses into tools and small ivory figurines. A new computational study of more than 3,000 of these ...

After 6,500 hours of heavy productivity use, we revisit our intentionally abused 4K QD-OLED monitor to see how burn-in has ...

National Geographic archaeologist George E. Stuart reported in 1975 on the scientists who sought to decode the ancient language—and the looters who stood in their way.

Paramount has hit a trend of hiring men with pasts that involve misconduct, from Max Landis and Brett Ratner to Johnny Depp ...

Perhaps even more than during the MLB season, there's going to be a focus on jerseys during the upcoming World Baseball Classic.

Rows of tiny crosses and dots run along the flank of a mammoth no bigger than your palm. Someone carved it from a tusk around ...

Ancient carvings once thought decorative may actually be early attempts to record information. Their statistical complexity matches that of proto-cuneiform, pushing the origins of writing-like systems ...

Researchers have uncovered compelling evidence that Stone Age humans were engraving complex, meaningful symbol systems onto ...

Even corporate emails are beginning to look like they were written by a philosopher who recently discovered bullet points. And once your brain notices the pattern… that’s it. Game over. You start ...