When we learn the letters of the English alphabet, we just remember them in order, from A to Z. But have you ever thought ...

Fed up with being last in the alphabet, the letter Z seeks a promotion. Z recruits Y to make the move with her, but the other le ...

Some letters in the alphabet are workhorses, showing up everywhere and often, while others (looking at you, “Z”) are much rarer. But just where does each letter appear with the most frequency ...

"A TO Z: The First Alphabet" follows that evolution from simple pictograms to Rebus writing, the use of a picture to represent a sound rather than a thing. The process of Rebus writing allowed ...

Biology New Letters Added to the Genetic Alphabet Scientists hope that new genetic letters, created in the lab, will endow DNA with new powers. The two new letters are named P and Z, and fit ...