Scientists are hoping to change that by proposing a slate of science-specific emoji. If approved, items such as lab goggles, a petri dish, a test tube, and a DNA double helix could join the ranks ...

At a conference in San Francisco, a group drafted proposals to add more planets, instruments and other science icons to the keyboard. Science lovers, rejoice! More emoji designed for the nerd in ...

Scientists are hoping to change that by proposing a slate of science-specific emoji. If approved, items such as lab goggles, a petri dish, a test tube, and a DNA double helix could join the ranks ...

I think having a protein emoji would be useful for science communication, similarly to how the DNA emoji has come to represent advances in genomics and sequencing. Emojis emerged in the late 1990s ...

It’s a banner day to be an emoji. Monday marks the tenth annual World Emoji Day 🗺️🤩📆, and there’s never been a better time to be a cute and colorful little communication character.

Tyler Schnoebelen has discovered something curious about why people use the skull emoji. Schnoebelen is a linguist and the chief analyst for Idibon, a firm that interprets linguistic data.

Instead of donning her conceptual comedienne’s hat, she put on an actual lab coat inside New York University’s chemistry department at an “Emoji Science” event put on by GE that brought ...

That's the question surging through the worldwide community of emoji users, who have led campaign after campaign to introduce a wider range of expressions into this nascent language. Emoji ...

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. Emojination has ...

Text messages and chats online can include a combination of words, pictures and emoji to convey a message. Words and pictures can be easily understood, but deciphering emoji might feel like decodi ...