How a medieval Oxford friar used light and colour to find out what stars and planets are made of

Richard Fishacre challenged the scientific orthodoxy of his day, and contemporary astrophysics has vindicated his position.

How a medieval Oxford friar used light and color to find out what stars and planets are made of

During the 1240s, Richard Fishacre, a Dominican friar at Oxford University, used his knowledge of light and color to show ...

Adam Grant on lessons from the pandemic, datum versus data, and how abstract numbers can lead to very real human outcomes

In this excerpt from the new book 'Speak Data,' the Wharton professor and best-selling author shares his thoughts on how we ...
Scientific American

Dangerous Rogue Waves Aren’t Random—They’re Predictable

An 18-year dataset from the North Sea reveals that rogue waves are not freak accidents but particular products of ordinary ...

Randomness reveals hidden order in the plant world

In the intricate architecture of plant tissues, beauty often emerges from chaos, according to new research from Cornell ...
Scientific Research Publishing

Out-of-School Mentorship and Positive Youth Development among Secondary Students in Kibra, Nairobi, Kenya ()

Wafula, C.W.N., Wamuyu, T. and Koome, P. (2025) Out-of-School Mentorship and Positive Youth Development among Secondary Students in Kibra, Nairobi, Kenya. Open Access Library Journal, 12, 1-24. doi: ...
The National Interest on MSN

What Do We Know About Boeing’s Secret X-37B Space Drone?

B—but it can rapidly change orbits, deploy payloads, or conduct on-orbit servicing, giving it clear intelligence or counter-space value.
IEEE

Continuous-Variable Quantum Secret Sharing Based on Multi-Ring Discrete Modulation

Abstract: We propose a continuous-variable quantum secret sharing scheme based on multi-ring discrete modulation, which we called MR-CVQSS. In this scheme, phase shift keying (PSK)-modulated coherent ...