Emoji is now the fastest growing language in the UK - and many find it easier to communicate using its smiley faces and icons than text, says one linguistics expert. Professor Vyv Evans, from Bangor ...

Earth has millions of fungi species, but the official emoji library has only one: Amanita muscaria, the red-capped, white-spotted mushroom found in fairy-tale books and Super Mario Brothers video ...

Is emoji the new global language? The tsunami of emoji – which is Japanese for picture character – engulfed the world in 2011 and never receded. More than 6 billion emoji are sent every day and ...