Observer

This Living Emoji Bird Has a Slightly Angrier Emoji-Bird Cousin Species

First dates are a little weird for everybody, but the Superb Bird-of-Paradise may have the craziest first date in the animal kingdoms. This avian actually warps its whole body and dances so that it ...
techtimes

New emoji: From aliens to flipping the bird, take a look and start texting your emotions

If a picture is worth a thousand words, how many is an emoji worth? Regardless of the answer, you'll have 2,834 new ways to communicate with emoji as the Unicode Consortium has released the list of ...
WESA

This week in science: dunking birds, a hole in the sun and lack of emoji biodiversity

It's time now for our regular science news roundup with our friends at NPR Short Wave podcast, Regina Barber and Viet Le. Hi, all. REGINA BARBER, BYLINE: Hey. VIET LE, BYLINE: Hi. SUMMERS: So how this ...
Bustle

Are The New Emoji On Android?

Apple nearly broke the Internet this week with its iOS 9.1 update, which just so happened to feature a slew of adorable and socially relevant emoji (how did we live before burrito texts?). But, for ...
NPR

This week in science: dunking birds, a hole in the sun and lack of emoji biodiversity

NPR's Juana Summers talks with Regina Barber and Viet Le of Short Wave about parrots dunking food in water, a giant hole in the sun and the lifeforms neglected by emoji makers. It's time now for our ...