Present-day speakers of Hungarian, Finnish and Estonian have substantial Siberian ancestry, a new study of ancient genomes ...

Gen Z's interpretation of the smiley face emoji isn't new, although it's making headlines again. In 2021, the Wall Street Journal ran a whole piece on it and included insight from Gen Z.

The pictorial shorthand of emojis is perfect for small phone screens. It has also sprawled into a lexicon rich in metaphor ...

To Gen Z, that classic smiley face emoji isn’t all sunshine — it’s more of a smug, side-eye smirk that can come off as passive-aggressive in texts like above.

Meanwhile, on the opposite end of the “likable” smiley face spectrum were the heart-blowing emoji (No. 1), the heart-encircled smiley (No. 2) and the heart-eyed countenance (No. 3), per the ...

Of course the smiley face wasn’t always just an emoji. It actually has a steeper history that’s older than any Gen Z. According to The Guardian, the smiley face was invented in 1963 “as a ...

The smiley face emoji without a mouth means you're at a loss for words, while the same face with a zipper for a mouth means you'll keep a secret (my lips are sealed) or it's used to tell someone ...

Smiley Faces in Serious Places: Emoji Use Pops Up in Legal Battles Over Inheritances. Estate planning attorney notes how emojis are crossing over from casual conversation to litigation.