Historian Ivan Malara has identified handwritten annotations by Galileo Galilei in the margins of a roughly 500-year-old copy of Ptolemy’s Almagest, according to a report in Nature. The notes, dated ...

The scientific community long assumed that to understand how lightning works, one needed a ...

Lightning formation and the conditions triggering it have long been shrouded in a cloud of mystery, but new research led by Penn State scientists is lifting the fog. Using mathematical calculations, ...

Class Disrupted is an education podcast featuring author Michael Horn and Futre’s Diane Tavenner in conversation with ...