To U.S. academicians, Peter Kapitza also stood as a symbol—a living symbol of science’s lost internationalism. Contact us at letters@time.com ...

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But the origins of proto-cuneiform’s emergence have been murky, and many of its symbols remain undeciphered. Researchers conducting a careful analysis of proto-cuneiform symbols were surprised ...

Vincent Georges, an archaeologist with INRAP and manager of the excavation, told Live Science that the key cosmological symbols were collectively a “very widespread sacred concept linked to this ...

Electrical current flows around the circuit. Scientists use symbols to represent the different components in a circuit. Symbols are simplified drawings. We use symbols because they are easier to ...