A team of researchers from Rush University Medical Center in the U.S. has found that a lifelong habit of reading helps protect against dementia. The same benefit appeared for other…

A study by Spanish researchers found that digital devices do little to improve reading skills — including decoding, vocabulary, and comprehension. Even though many kids grow up with phones in…

Reading a person’s thoughts doesn’t feel like science fiction anymore. Previously, scientists predicted a person’s words during a normal conversation by decoding electrical activity in the temporal lobe. Eleven years…

I don’t understand people who complain about not knowing what to do after work. For me and my kids, there’s never a shortage of ways to spend our free time.…

I just remembered another quirky ability Ira and I share: wherever there’s text—books, store windows, menus—we often read things wrong, instinctively twisting words into our own versions. The funny part…