
GeekSpin - 1 day 9 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 9 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 10 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...

PBS Newshour - 1 day 21 hours ago
In our news wrap Monday, Tropical Storm Marie is whipping up high surf along the California coast, the Kremlin is not ruling out future talks between Ukraine, Russia, and the United States following a weekend visit to Moscow by U.S. negotiators and Iran is warning that new U.S. strikes could trigger further retaliation, including against American energy interests in the Gulf. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy...

Wired - 2 days 8 hours ago
Dark energy might be getting weaker. Scientists are wondering if interactions with dark matter in a "dark dimension" may be responsible.

Last Word On Nothing - 2 days 11 hours ago
Dueting with animals will always be thrilling for me, and I’ll always envision our melodic conversations filling a sound gap somewhere up there. Enjoy this memory along with me! I had a conversation with an owl the other night. It was a barred owl, a pretty common species in the woods around our cabin in […] The post A Little Night Music (Revisited) appeared first on The Last Word On Nothing .