Good morning and welcome to The Downshift, or TDS for short. Light, short, and snappy, TDS gathers the latest automotive news from around the globe and puts it in one place. Stories are accompanied by ...

Ahhh, Arabic! The dazzling gem of the Arab world has been captivating linguists and language lovers for centuries. With today ...

Calligraphy, once considered the highest form of writing, faces new questions in an age of screens and sensors. Is this ancient art still tethered to brush and ink? The resounding response: not at all ...

Statue of Cyril and Methodius statue on Radhost in Czechia. Credit: Valtameri, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0 The Cyrillic alphabet, the script famously used by Russians (and others), is one of the ...

Karolina Pawlik received research funding from Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University for her project "Soft Brush, Creativity and Cross-Cultural Communication" (2023-2025). Many of us would struggle to ...

It's hard not to get sentimental about the coastal expanse around Napa, California. But if you ask the journalists gathered at a lovely spa and resort in Calistoga, the biggest show of grandeur is the ...

Markets, executives and consumers are still trying to figure out the impact of tariffs on prices and the economy. This week, they’ll get an update on the other main theme of second-quarter earnings, ...

1 College of Art and Design, Hunan First Normal University, Changsha, China 2 Shanghai Academy of Fine Art, Shanghai University, Shanghai, China Introduction: Calligraphy, as a mindful practice, ...

Calligraphy was once China’s highest art form—then the Communist Party tried to erase it. Now, under Xi Jinping, it’s making a comeback. At Sotheby’s in Hong Kong, a rare copy of the Orchid Pavilion ...

Art meets science in this device designed and built by two MIT undergrads. Gloria Zhu ’26 and Lee Liu ’26 set out to make a calligraphy machine during IAP 2024. They built its mechatronic parts in a ...