This week in science: dunking birds, a hole in the sun and lack of emoji biodiversity NPR's Juana Summers talks with Regina Barber and Viet Le of Short Wave about parrots dunking food in water, ...

Introduced to the emoji library in December 2016, the distinctive bird, which doesn’t vary too much in its appearance ...

The shaking and nodding heads are made of the standard smiling face emoji plus horizontal and vertical arrow emoji. The Phoenix is a regular bird emoji joined with the fire emoji.

It’s a banner day to be an emoji. Monday marks the tenth annual World Emoji Day 🗺️🤩📆, and there’s never been a better time to be a cute and colorful little communication character. ...

NPR's Juana Summers talks with Regina Barber and Viet Le of Short Wave about parrots dunking food in water, a giant hole in the sun and the lifeforms neglected by emoji makers.