It is the DEAR period at Birla Vidya Niketan in Delhi’s Pushp Vihar — Drop Everything and Read. For 45 minutes, before formal classes begin, students sit with slim, student-edition newspapers spread ...

If you read a book in 2025—just one book—you belong to an endangered species. Like honeybees and red wolves, the population of American readers, Lector americanus, has been declining for decades. The ...

Department of Chinese Language and Literature, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China Introduction: Digital reading has become a common learning activity; however, the empirical understanding ...

Microsoft says that the File Explorer (formerly Windows Explorer) now automatically blocks previews for files downloaded from the Internet to block credential theft attacks via malicious documents.

Preteens using increasing amounts of social media perform poorer in reading, vocabulary and memory tests in early adolescence compared with those who use no or little social media. That's according to ...

After crunching numbers, a team from University College London and the University of Florida found that the number of Americans who read books for fun on any given day fell 40 percent between 2003 and ...

When was the last time you curled up with a good book or flipped through the pages of a magazine? If it’s been a while, you’re not alone: The number of Americans who read for fun has plummeted over ...

With the country facing a “reading crisis,” the Danish government plans to exempt books from a 25 percent value-added tax. By Isabella Kwai Officials in Denmark, as in many other places, are worried ...

From 2003 to 2023, the share of Americans who read for pleasure fell 40 percent, a sharp decline that is part of a continuing downward trend. By Maggie Astor Any reader knows the unique delight of ...

An image showing the laser approaching a target.L.-C. Liu et al. Imagine standing on one side of a large valley and being able to read a label on a bottle sitting on the opposite hill, without using a ...