In ancient times, people saw dreams as vessels of meaning that contained divine messages and had the power to alter history. Alexander the Great was on the verge of breaking ground for his new city ...

Dreams involving being chased may indicate efforts to evade challenging situations, fear of conflict, unresolved emotions, or a wish to escape restrictive conditions. These dreams might also symbolize ...

There was a court case just over a year ago where a judge ruled that a series of texted emoji constituted a valid agreement to rent an apartment. A law professor has found that it was far from alone: ...

Although emoji fill in where words are lacking, their true meaning might be getting lost in translation. People interpret emoji differently, according to a new study from the University of Minnesota, ...

When the Supreme Court takes up the Affordable Care Act again on March 4, the fate of President Obama’s health-care law will once again be on the line, as it was in 2012. Only this time, the Court ...

What if every film, novel, and artwork followed invisible rules? From Saussure’s linguistics to Barthes’ semiotics, structuralism revealed the deep systems shaping how we create and interpret meaning ...