A fire at sea is among a sailor’s worst fears. In the era of wooden shops, where candles and oil lamps were the only sources of illumination, the chance of such a catastrophe was an ever-present ...

Optical Prism, a transparent object surrounded by two planes that intersect but are not parallel to each other, is used to split light or disperse light beams. An optical prism is a polyhedron made of ...

The Wordle word of the day on December 25 was prism, a word that feels almost unfairly elegant for something so relentlessly honest. A prism exists to intervene between appearance and understanding, ...