The tool section of the emoji keyboard boasts an array of knives, a syringe, a water gun, a beeper, a battery, and a bomb. But when it comes to objects you might find in a laboratory, the options ...

Pick a screen, any screen, and chances are someone is deep in a text conversation. While phone calls are still around, ...

The use of emojis in text messaging improves perceived responsiveness and thereby enhances closeness and relationship ...

While it all started with a dumpling, the group also helped other food, clothing, science and animal emoji, including the woman in the hijab, the sandwich and the fortune cookie.

What are the most popular emoji? You may have your own go-to emoji, but according to Emojipedia, these are the most popular emoji as of early March.

What it communicates, above all, is the hopeless unhipness of its sender. I use it anyway, mostly out of habit but also ...

Emojis, as well as memes and other forms of short-form content, have become central to how we express ourselves and connect ...

NPR's Juana Summers talks with Regina Barber and Viet Le of Short Wave about parrots dunking food in water, a giant hole in the sun and the lifeforms neglected by emoji makers.

A new study has shown that when it comes to developing closeness in your relationships, the emoji you send in your texts are ...

Why not climate change? In 2017, a “warming Earth” emoji was put forward as part of a larger science emoji proposal. Some of the suggested symbols, like , , and were later added.

The smiling emoji is used to convey real joy, but at the same time, users also deploy this emoji to hide negative emotions or de-escalate a tense situation.

Nancy Briscoe, an audience development manager at GE, said the emoji were part of a broader effort to make STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) fields more culturally accepted.