An NYU team uses machine learning to analyze neural activity data and uncover how speech is produced. In a recent paper ...

Semicolon use is down, and its slide is making headlines. In the U.S., these punctuation marks are appearing in published ...

Senator Josh Hawley sure knows how to scurry away.

LONDON — Like the fissionable atom, punctuation marks are wee items capable of causing a tremendous release of energy. Passionate disagreement over the use of exclamation points is so familiar ...

What punctuation mark does Gen Z dislike? It’s the semicolon. According to the study, there’s been a steep drop in semicolon use—from once every 205 words in 2000 to once every 390 words in ...

Using a full stop in texts could be giving away your age, an expert has suggested. Noël Wolf, a linguistic expert, said young people – aged from 13 to 28 – were rewriting the rules to “shift” the ...

"You can't even put those guys in the same sentence because we didn't know Tom Brady's last year when it was last year, right." Edelman said. "He didn't want the distraction of that.

There's one punctuation mark Gen Z wants you to stop using. Here's what it is—and why it's falling out of favor.

this once-stylish symbol of sentence sophistication is fast vanishing from our written language. According to recent studies, semicolon usage in books has halved in the last 25 years, and the majority ...

Not only are semicolons evidently becoming more rare, but young people are less aware of how to use them, according to a survey ...

The inverted comma is falling out of fashion. Ms Rooney discarded it for her last three bestselling books. This year’s Booker Prize winner, “Orbital”, didn’t use them either. Our number ...