Writing by hand engages more of the brain than typing. Scientists say the cognitive demands of handwriting may help keep the aging mind sharp.

Research compared students who typed lecture notes on laptops with those who wrote lecture notes by hand during the same time.

Do you not have good penmanship? Here's what research says your handwriting, specifically the way you write these letters, ...

“Handwriting was initially the first means of preserving information that was previously only passed down orally,” explains Donica. Before the invention of the printing press, copying information or ...

The way you dot your i’s and cross your t's means more than you may think. Here’s what handwriting analysis reveals about your personality. Human beings are complex, often confusing creatures. It can ...

Russell has a PhD in the history of medicine, violence, and colonialism. His research has explored topics including ethics, science governance, and medical involvement in violent contexts. Russell has ...

As school-age children increasingly rely solely on digital devices for remote- and in-class learning, many K-12 school systems around the world are phasing out cursive handwriting and no longer ...

Cursive script for the Roman alphabet can vary from country to country and can reveal much about where and how you were taught, writes Adrienne Bernhard. Cursive eulogies are everywhere these days, ...

I can’t remember how to write a capital Z in cursive. The rest of my letters are shaky and stiff, my words slanted in all directions. It’s not for lack of trying. In grade school I was one of those ...