How can you distinguish a human-written article from a machine-generated one? And does that ability even matter? Over time, ...

Writing by hand engages more of the brain than typing. Scientists say the cognitive demands of handwriting may help keep the ...

This review is part of a preview of the winter 2026 issue of Academe. The issue will be released in full in February.

Imagine an army of robots holding real pens, writing real letters that look eerily realistic to a human’s handwriting. That’s the idea behind Handwrytten, an Arizona-based company that was one of the ...

Artificial intelligence has crept into marketing faster than most expected. It writes emails, scripts, captions, even sales pitches. But now something new is happening — AI is starting to sound human.

Researchers at University College London (UCL) have developed a program that can analyze a person’s handwriting and semi-automatically generate text that seems to be written by the same person, with ...

Written in partnership with Jessica Pastor. In recent years, the rapid advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) has had a profound impact on various aspects of human lives. One area where AI has ...

AI writing has become a normal part of how people create and share ideas. What once sounded flat and robotic now reads like something written by a real person. Tools like AI undetectable make this ...

Thanks to a free web app called calligrapher.ai, anyone can simulate handwriting with a neural network that runs in a browser via JavaScript. After typing a sentence, the site renders it as ...

Putting pen to paper slows your thinking, allowing you to process information, form conclusions and create meaning.