A caption states “David Hampton planted larch trees in the Douglas fir forest in Oregon to create a smiley face. It returns each fall and makes a happy showing.” This image is real. The face appears ...

Your Brain Now Processes a Smiley Face as a Real Smile Perhaps eventually we’ll respond to emoji as we would to real dogs, cats and night skies. Rose Eveleth - Contributor. February 12, 2014.

Having first appeared in the 1980s, the pattern of brain activity triggered by looking at an emoticon smiley face is now the same as when someone sees a real smiling human face, scientists from ...

A new study finds that while real-life smiles signal competence, smiley face emojis do not ― another example of how we can be way off in our assumptions about how real-world behavior translates ...

CBS 58 News has reported on the controversial crime theory for the better part of a decade.Dubbed "Smiley Face Killer" the speculation was that a serial killer with a penchant for smiling graffiti was ...

Be sure to check the weather beforehand and keep your fingers crossed for clear skies. This conjunction Friday morning might look like a smiley face to some, but it does give us an accurate 3D ...

By the ‘70s, the smiley face was beginning to infiltrate popular culture. Around 1970, two brothers from Philadelphia, Bernard and Murray Spain, began selling products – coffee mugs, tea trays ...

Images of a supposed "Smiley Face Moon" have been popping up on social media. Here's what's real about this week's sky show.

We're all familiar with the smiley emoticon, and its power to add levity, flirtation, and occasionally passive-aggression to our texts, chats, and e-mails. But according to researchers, our brains ...

“My name is Susie, but you can also call me Your Majesty,” quipped S.E. Hinton at the beginning of the discussion about her work with Jane Smiley at the L.A. Times Festival of Books on April 26.

ST. LOUIS — A smiling cookie in St. Louis has bakers from Pennsylvania frowning. It's no joking matter for them; they sent a cease and desist letter to a St. Louis bakery, telling them they have ...

Happy Lowman's smiley face tattoos from 'Mayans MC' and 'Sons of Anarchy' might not mean what you think, according to Kurt Sutter.