Milk, blueberry muffins, honeycrisp apples, ice hockey, L’etoile du Nord and “Hail! Minnesota.” Each is among 20 state ...

In 1914, committees of the Physical Society of London, ... Nature - Symbols and Nomenclature in Physical Science. Skip to main content. Thank you for visiting nature.com.

Every so often, a piece of information splits society into two parts: the people for whom it’s brand new and eye-opening, and those who can’t believe anyone didn’t know it in the first place ...

Certain symbols appear on temple walls at various locations in the ancient city of Dūr-Šarrukīn, where Khorsabad, Iraq, is today. At the time of their creation, the city was ruled by Sargon II ...

There is one symbol, which has an incredibly long history that has not yet been fully written: 0. How did it arise? We know it was used by the Babylonians, but they didn’t write a 0 as we know it.

But with symbols, we can use a sort of image that represents the concept -- like a heart for love -- which makes the abstract idea more concrete and therefore easier to remember." ...