No word would suffice to express the fluency with which these shorthand icons in texts and emails and on social media have become a language unto themselves. Find out how new symbols are added to ...

Emoji, the latest example of that pictorial impulse, have become such a critical part of our hyperconnected exchanges that they are emerging as a dialect all their own.

Last Month: 23 This emoji is some pig. Inexplicably, the Pig hangs on at the bottom of our Power Rankings for the third consecutive month. Though we were shocked at first, we've come to realize ...

We use emoji in texts and other messaging to set a tone, maintain relationships, and show solidarity. But are they also changing the way we think?

Emoji enables us to better express tone and provide emotional cues; and in turn, our addressees are better able to interpret what the words are meant to convey.

Emoji enables us to better express tone and provide emotional cues; and in turn, our addressees are better able to interpret what the words are meant to convey.

You’ve got your paramedic emoji, your policeman emoji, your private-detective emoji and many many more mostly male emojis. Isn’t it time we had at least a few professional-women characters out ...

Discover which emoji tops January's list in the Emoji Power Rankings' January Top 25.