The next time you are reading a book, or even as you read this article, consider the words that you are seeing. How do you recognize these words? A new study reveals that the most important features ...

Recently, I wrote about how to use special characters to identify languages that use Latin alphabets. But what about all those other alphabets? You can't be expected to memorize them all, of course.

Learning to read is not just to do with speech, but also with the ability to recognize and memorize regular patterns among the letters that make up words, according to a new study on baboons. New ...