Books are an important part of our cultural genome, the information that we pass on from generation to generation. "Culturomics" studies the evolution of human culture quantitatively, in this instance ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Researchers have created a powerful new approach to scholarship, using approximately 4 percent of all books ever published as a digital "fossil record" of human culture. By ...

The Sao Paulo state government decided this week to largely replace textbooks with e-books in high schools, sparking a row in Brazil, where education experts and publishers warned the move could have ...

Parents often wonder whether screen time is ok. A group of researchers are arguing that if it's reading, then it is. This piece is part of Scientific American's column The Science of Parenting. To ...