The 2,000-year-old geoglyphs offer clues to the ancient Nazca people and their rituals.

Thousands of years ago, our ancestors used symbols to track the sale of textile and agricultural products. New research ...

A link exists between 6,000-year-old engravings on cylindrical seals used on clay tablets and cuneiform, the world’s oldest ...

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Nov. 7, 2024 — Plastic pollution exacerbates the impacts of all planetary boundaries, including climate change, ocean acidification and biodiversity loss, a new paper shows. Ahead of the final ...

Cats are quicker than babies to associate a picture of a word with its corresponding picture, new research shows.

Ned Rozell ned.rozell@alaska.edu is a science writer for the Geophysical Institute. A version of this story appeared in 2015.

Researchers investigating how the first writing arose identified the motifs on preliterate "cylinder seals" used in the trade of agricultural products and textiles.

Surprisingly, for a company so stringent about privacy and security, Apple has given users unfettered access to its emoji ...

Google has released its 2024 Halloween Google Doodle game, featuring the return of a cute magical black cat who fights ghosts ...

Acting Cute, and more. You can use these Kaomojis anywhere on Windows 11 in the similar way we used GIFs and Emojis. You can use a lot of special symbols and characters directly from Clipboard ...