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 ...

Heavy atomic nuclei are not as symmetric as previously thought, physicists find

Many heavy atomic nuclei are shaped more or less like squashed rugby balls than fully inflated ones, according to a ...
The New Yorker

Solvej Balle’s Novels Rewire the Time Loop

Most stories in the genre build to a moment of escape. “On the Calculation of Volume” imagines a woman making a life inside ...

Making sense of the pyramids’ enduring mysteries

For 5,000 years scholars, generals, and mystics have been fascinated by the Egyptian pyramids. That obsession persists in the ...
BBC

3D shapes

A prism is a 3D shape which has a constant cross section - both ends of the solid are the same shape and anywhere you cut parallel to these ends will give you the same shape. For example, in the prism ...
The Motley Fool

Best Tax-Free Municipal Bonds

Tax-free municipal bonds are exempt from federal and often state taxes, reducing taxes for investors. Investing through bond funds, like those offered by Vanguard or iShares, simplifies the process of ...