Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Time to practice your handwriting again. Want to remember something? Don't type it out—write it down. At least that's what a paper ...

Note-taking by hand fosters better learning and is an important physical therapy to nurture for a lifetime of aging dexterity ...

My parents started dating back in the '80s and for a while, they were long-distance. Since this was before our current era of smartphones and email, one of the ways they kept in touch was mail: My ...

A custodian of tradition: Handwriting, once so ordinary it scarcely merited thought, is now framed as an act of intention. To write by hand is to slow the pace, to weigh words more carefully, to leave ...

Writing by hand creates much more activity in the sensorimotor parts of the brain. A lot of senses are activated by pressing the pen on paper, seeing the letters you write and hearing the sound you ...

As digital devices progressively replace pen and paper, taking notes by hand is becoming increasingly uncommon in schools and universities. Using a keyboard is recommended because it's often faster ...

Like many, I lost the ability to write fluid cursive, and my kids don’t care to learn it either. What does the loss of this ...

Turns out the skill your teachers drilled into you never stopped mattering.

While pen and paper may seem poised on the edge of obscurity, handwriting offers a bevy of brain-boosting perks that should not be lost to technology. Melissa Breyer was Treehugger’s senior editorial ...

Children today are growing up surrounded by technology. So it's easy to assume they will be able to write effectively using a keyboard. But our research suggests this is not necessarily true. We need ...

Typing may be faster than writing by hand, but it's less stimulating for the brain, according to research published Friday in the journal Frontiers in Psychology. After recording the brain activity of ...