Scientists have developed a color-changing tactile sensor that lets robots visualize touch in real time, paving the way for more precise manufacturing, prosthetics, and robotic surgery.

One of the most intriguing free agency moves of the offseason came when the Pittsburgh Steelerssigned Rico Dowdle. After ...

Communication in the digital age has plenty of strange trappings. Periods can seem aggressive; complete, punctuated sentences can read as uptight. And then there's the strange space that's seemed to ...

James Joyce's tome 'Finnegans Wake' famously breaks the rules of normal prose through its unusual, dreamlike stream of consciousness, and new work in chaos theory takes a closer look at how Joyce's ...

We’re living in a time where we have more technology than ever for sharing our words, but we still constantly get misunderstood. One cause of this is that we simply don’t use enough punctuation in our ...

But what if the biggest giveaway that a text was written by AI isn’t a word, phrase, or punctuation mark, but a particular sentence structure instead? The idea that certain rhythms of sentences might ...

Let’s talk about the em dash. Not the little innocent hyphen, not its slightly more confident cousin, the en dash. No, I’m talking about the 'EM dash,' that long, dramatic line that AI looooooves to ...

For centuries – or at least since the era of Virginia Woolf – the em dash has carved out a proud if unruly place in English prose. But now, for the crime of being favoured by writers for its many ...

“There are people who embrace the Oxford comma, and people who don’t, and I’ll just say this: never get between these people when drink has been taken,” wrote author Lynne Truss in her punctuation ...

Punctuation plays a vital role in shaping how writing is understood. From full stops to semicolons, each mark helps guide meaning, structure, and emotion in a sentence. Misuse can lead to confusion, ...

April 15, 2025 Updated Mon., Nov. 24, 2025 at 5:50 p.m. After a presentation announcing the launch of nonprofit Comma, Rob Curley, editor of the Spokesman-Review, left, has a conversation with Dean ...

Reliable news coverage has never been more important than it is now. Journalists must remain vigilant and rigorous in the face of a second Trump Administration. To help them do so, we are releasing an ...