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Emoji, accent marks, and other special characters bring an element of fun and accuracy to the texting experience, but what if you’re on your PC and you want to break up plain old text with cool ...

With temperatures rising and summer officially here, many of us will be reaching for the sun cream to try and avoid getting burned. The bottles are covered in letters, numbers and odd symbols - but ...

Distinct preference for visual number symbols was recently discovered in the human right inferior temporal gyrus (rITG). It remains unclear how this preference emerges, what is the contribution of ...

One of the disadvantages of smaller iPads’ software keyboard is the lack of a numbers row. The 13-inch iPad displays a full keyboard with a numbers row and separate Caps Lock and Tab keys. But to type ...

Behavioural studies have revealed that the processing and representation of numerical magnitude are qualitatively similar across species and across human development. Reliable effects such as the ...

We already knew bees were smart enough to recognise zero and do basic maths but the latest research has found they have another string to their bow – they can link symbols to numbers too. For the ...