As a franchise, Star Trek has always faced an interesting creative paradox: it must balance the human storytelling of the ...

Researchers have discovered signs of a Paleolithic writing precursor in ancient tools and sculptures dating back 40,000 years ...

More than 40,000 years ago, Ice Age humans were carving repeated patterns of dots, lines, and crosses into tools and small ivory figurines. A new computational study of more than 3,000 of these ...

Ancient carvings once thought decorative may actually be early attempts to record information. Their statistical complexity matches that of proto-cuneiform, pushing the origins of writing-like systems ...

Tom Smith reports back from the recent event at Live Theatre in Newcastle and shares writing advice and tips that he picked up from the weekend.