
GeekSpin - 1 day 21 hours ago
A soccer field in Denmark has turned out to be the unlikely hiding place of a medieval secret buried for centuries. Using ground-penetrating radar, archaeologists have uncovered the remarkably well-preserved remains of St. Clare's Convent, a 13th-century complex that was long believed to have been destroyed. The scans have revealed traces of rooms, cloisters, pillars, […] Read the original article here: Scanners reveal centuries-old medieval convent beneath sports field...

IEEE Spectrum - 1 day 21 hours ago
On July 20, a satellite from the German company OroraTech detected a hot spot near Aberdeen, California, east of Kings Canyon National Park. It was the first detection of the Rock Fire , which prompted evacuations and road closures and grew to more than 12,000 acres in hot, windy conditions before it was contained by firefighters. The Rock Fire is one of a small but growing number of first detections attributed to OroraTech's OTC-P1 constellation , part of a new generation of satellites developed...

Retraction Watch - 1 day 22 hours ago
Taylor & Francis is investigating an article in one of its journals after the editors published an editorial about academic freedom that contains multiple fake references and citation errors. In May, Anastasia Christou and Steve Lambert, coeditors of Journal of Higher and Further Education (JHFE), published an opinion piece about attacks on academic freedom and … Continue reading Editors of higher education journal coauthor editorial with fake references...