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The Greek alphabet, which has been in use since about 9 B.C., was the first to have letters for each vowel and consonant. In physics, why are only Greek letters such as delta, sigma, gamma, etc. used ...

President Donald Trump this week unleashed an economic hurricane by hitting dozens of countries with a punishing wave of tariffs. In order to explain the specific tariff imposed on any given country, ...

What do secret societies, infectious diseases, and male dominance hierarchies have in common? They all make use of a symbol system that was first developed over 2,500 years ago. Since that time, it ...

A scholar claims to have deciphered Cryptic B, a mysterious alphabet in the Dead Sea Scrolls long thought impossible to read.