Physicists have long sought to describe the universe in terms of equations. Now, S James Gates explains how research on a class of geometric symbols known as adinkras could lead to fresh insights into ...

Do you know what the hell is the Schwarzschild radius? I didn’t have a clue, but now I know that if you compress Earth to an 8mm radius ball, you will get a black hole. My fascination didn’t stop ...

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 ...