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Study: Ancient Greek harbor was built directly atop an active fault system

Researchers found that an ancient Greek harbor, carved into the coastline to serve trade and military purposes, sat directly on a network of active geological faults. The engineering project reshaped the shoreline but left the port vulnerable to the seismic activity beneath it.

gizmodo.com · 2026-09-30

Explainer traces the geometric origin of the inverse-square law

A technical write-up walks through why physical phenomena like light and sound intensity fall off with the square of distance, rather than linearly or cubically. The explanation builds from the classical formula for a sphere's surface area, using a paper-cylinder analogy to show how wrapping a sphere in a fitted cylinder reveals the 4πr² relationship at the heart of the law.

blog.coredump.cx · 2026-09-14