Margaret Hamilton is rightly remembered for her work programming the flight computers for Apollo. But she should also be remembered for her work on early weather prediction software, which informed the realization that weather is chaotic and the limits to predicting it. news.mit.edu/2026/margaret-ham…
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It is worth emphasizing that one of the #Chemistry #NobelPrize laureates announced today, #KensōSoai was born in #Hiroshima just 5 years after the #UnitedStates devastated the city with the first #military use of #nuclear weapons.
Margaret Hamilton, who led the 100-person team that wrote the onboard software for the Apollo missions, guiding Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to a safe landing on the moon, died Sept. 30 in Cambridge, Mass. She was 90. 🧪 www.nytimes.com/2026/10/07/o...
OMG, a first, just asked for comment from the BBC on the Nobel prize in chemistry, as well as contributing some photos. Going to bask in the reflected glory .... nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistr… #chirality #LRasymmetry #Nobel
Margaret Hamilton has died at 90. Her painstaking work helped turn an audacious national ambition into a working system: In the famous photo below, she stands next to a stack of her team's code for the Apollo missions—pages that carried human beings to the moon. RIP. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/07/o...
Hot neutrino news this week: The Physics Nobel prize has been awarded to the discovery of high-energy neutrinos from beyond our solar system. Neutrinos are still a very hot topic and a source of ongoing mystery: how much do they weigh, and how and why do they have mass at all? 👀 Read all about it in our recent article: knowablemagazine.org/content/a… #KnowableMagazine #ScienceMastodon #NobelPrizes #neutrinos
Three scientists won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Medicine for giving researchers a light switch for nerve cells; from algae. Optogenetics helps reveal how brain circuits shape memory, anxiety and behaviour. It could guide more precise treatments and is already being tested to help restore some vision. movetheneedle.news/brands/how-… #NobelPrize #Optogenetics #Neuroscience #science #technology #innovation #lifesciences #research
I didn't realise Margaret Hamilton had died on the 30th September this year. Margaret Hamilton did work on the Lorenz Equations with Ellen Fetter. They aren't as well known for it as Margeret Hamilton is known for her immense work on the NASA Apollo Guidance Computer quantamagazine.org/the-hidden-… #Chaos #MargaretHamilton #Lorenz #AGC #NASA
Francis Halzen Wins Nobel Physics Prize For Antarctic 'Ghost Particle' Hunt slashdot.org/story/26/10/07/03…
in honor of margaret hamilton, i’m posting this iconic image of her standing next to the printed apollo flight software that she and her team developed that helped take humans to the moon. rest in peace to an incredible inspiration for women in the space industry.
My first postdoc paper with Erin Mordecai is out! We explore the eco-epi of WNV across the US, grounded in disease ecology principles. royalsocietypublishing.org/rsbl/article...
Student scientists honor their mothers by naming a 309-million-year-old amphibian fossil after them. Evidence: Scientific discovery, Mazon Creek fossil, Women in Science interns #Paleontology #Science #GoodNews
A Nobel for solving chemistry’s asymmetry puzzle: Henri Kagan & Kenso Soai, winners of the 2026 #Chemistry #NobelPrize, were honoured for providing "a solution to a chemical mystery that is over a century old: how #homochirality can emerge spontaneously. The chemical reactions they have developed are spectacular." 🧬✨nytimes.com/2026/10/07/science…
"The inventory of wooden remains from Abric Romaní is extensive and represents a particularly unique case as it comes from a prehistoric domestic archaeological context." Important, cornerstone-paper from Saladie et al on Neanderthal wooden artefacts from Spain. 🦣🏺 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Ad astra, Margaret Hamilton. A remarkable, brilliant woman of science and an inspiration for all time. news.mit.edu/2026/margaret-ham…
Sad to hear of the passing of NASA legend Margaret Hamilton - year after year we had hoped that she would write a memoir talking about those pioneering days of space programming, and now she's gone, but her accomplishments will always be with us. www.cnn.com/2026/10/07/s...
PBS Nova - Space Wars airing tonight (10/7), and already available on the PBS app. Highly informative and well presented! #PBS #NOVA @dburbach.bsky.social @vsamsondc.bsky.social @planet4589.bsky.social
New preprint highlighting the power of herbarium genomics to uncover the processes and mechanisms underlying successful invasions. Multiple intros, limited admixture, and rapid evolution shaped the invasion of stiltgrass in North America. Comments welcomed! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Belgian-American particle physicist Francis Halzen won the 2026 Nobel Prize in physics for "decisive contributions to the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and the discovery of high-energy neutrinos of astrophysical origin." japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/10/… #worldnews #sciencehealth #nobelprize #physics #awards
“…the Red Planet… is almost completely devoid of atmospheric water vapor. That makes it extremely rare for puffy, Earth-like clouds to form there, let alone ones so vast. As a result, scientists have struggled to explain this whacky weather.” www.livescience.com/space/mars/1...
#News: Indigenous #Australians, the world’s first #astronomers – are losing access to the night sky as light #pollution drowns out #stars. Protect dark skies and 60,000 years of knowledge #IndigenousRights #HumanRights @palmoildetectives theconversation.com/indigenous…
New paper in @commsearth.nature.com! Freezing an Enceladus-type brine, we found natron traps pockets of the parent ocean fluid. If they can hold onto biosignatures too, future missions should be looking for natron in fresh plume deposits. Led by @pereralj.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s43...
Deep-sea scientists discover 57 new species in a canyon nearly twice as deep as the Grand Canyon discoverwildlife.com/animal-fa… #nature
The Magellanic Clouds are two small galaxies that orbit our Milky Way. You can see them particularly well from the southern hemisphere, and they are named after the explorer Magellan. 📸 ESA/Hubble/E. Slawik #DeepSky #Astronomy #MilkyWay
Thanks to around 15,000 visitors who joined us at the #OpenHouse on the #Garching #campus on Saturday to explore labs, meet researchers, try experiments, and discover everything from #quantumtechnologies to the mysteries of the universe: go.tum.de/599077🚀 📷A.Eckert
#LiteratureNotice Grebennikov et al. Deep-soil sampling in Chile reveals a new elateroid beetle family, Badmaateridae fam. nov. (Coleoptera) doi.org/10.1111/syen... #Beetle #Beetles #elateroidbeetle
I was going to set 100 MCMC runs going earlier in the week but I forgot after loading the data into R. I only realised this morning that I hadn't set them running! Now it is on run 1 out of 100. It's going to take a couple of days, based on the other sets I've done already. #rstats #science #bayesian #palaeontology #palaeobiology #zoology #evolutionaryBiology #evolution #phylogeny
Vale Margaret, yet another pioneering woman in a field that has sadly excluded women in later years. www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
ARISS is accepting proposals for STEM contacts in the July-December 2027 window. Planning a summer scouting event or STEM activity next school year? Apply now! Visit ARISS.org for details. Europe, Africa, & the Middle East: Your deadline is just 2 weeks away!
New paper on the checklist of the bees of Colombia 🔎 We documented 738 bee species across 123 genera, including: 🐝 246 new records 🌿 140 endemic species (19% of the total) 🌎 Bees from diverse ecosystems across the country 🏡 57% solitary species and 57% above-ground nesters peerj.com/articles/216...
#BBCNews - Margaret Hamilton, whose software helped land Apollo 11 on the Moon, dies at 90 bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx5yn4…
Tour de force from Abdel, Hillary Martin and colleagues using imputation to increase power and reduce ascertainment bias of genetic analyses of fluid intelligence. As a result new common and rare "hits" are detected. #BioMed
“Water vapour turns directly into icy cloud particles without any middle step” independent.co.uk/space/mars-c…
Space engineer Katherine Bennell-Pegg was the first astronaut to train under the Australian flag, 2024. #WorldSpaceWeek🚀 She serves as Director of Space Technology at the Australian Space Agency, leading projects including their upcoming lunar rover. #WomenInSTEM #Australia
Accordingly, there was a strong variability of the phenology across years. Within years, we found a moderate repeatability and relatively small heritability of breeding phenology. Selection was surprisingly inferred as directional and non-fluctuant across years!
The Moon’s soil preserves signatures of the solar wind, cosmic rays, and stellar events, but frequent meteorite strikes scramble what would otherwise be a neatly layered record of cosmic history. The team derived an equation that describes its evolution over time. physics.aps.org/articles/v19...
NASA’s PRIMA spacecraft is the proposed Probe far-Infrared Mission for Astrophysics, selected to join the agency’s Probe Explorers program. This observatory will utilize far-infrared light to observe cosmic objects heavily obscured by interstellar dust. The mission aims to provide new insights into the formation of planets, stars, black holes, and the origin of water on Earth. Read more: science.nasa.gov/photojournal/…
Thankyou for everything you contributed to computing and science as a whole. Personal hero of mine. Pour one out.
A new article is out in the free, generalist, open-access Peer Community Journal! Read our latest article: “Selection for Function, Persistence, and Darwinian Evolution”. 🔗 Free full-text article: doi.org/10.24072/pcjournal.753 Free public peer reviews and recommendations by PCI Evolutionary Biology: doi.org/10.24072/pci.evolbiol.… 📣 You want to publish in the scientists-led Peer Community Journal? Submit your preprint to one of the 21 thematic PCI 👉 peercommunityin.org/submit-a-p…
Scientists analysed the DNA of world’s oldest land animal. What they found was staggering Jonathan the Aldabra giant tortoise is around 194 years old – making him a contemporary of Charles Darwin
BBC News - Chemistry Nobel awarded for solving mystery of life's asymmetry www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Why old dogs might be able to teach Alzheimer’s researchers new tricks theconversation.com/why-old-do… #health #science #STEM
Testing of the Naburn Whale is underway! 🧬🐋 This rare specimen held by The Yorkshire Museum is believed to be a beluga whale, found stranded at Naburn Lock, York in 1905. This is one of three RICHeS projects we are collaborating with museum partners on at the moment. #RICHeS #RICHeSAccessFund #AHRC
Complex organic molecules, specifically standard and fully deuterated methanol, are forming within the dense gas and dust clouds surrounding young, low-mass protostars. #MolecularAstrophysics #Astrochemistry #Astronomy #sflorg sflorg.com/2026/10/asph1007260…
With the Nobel prize offering insights into an intriguing class of asymmetric catalytic reactions. Jamie Durrani explores the chemistry underpinning this year’s prize & the contributions the work makes. #ChemSky #Nobel @rsc.org @jtdurrani.bsky.social www.chemistryworld.com/news/explain...
Exclusive: How did Rosalind Franklin miss the helix in her iconic DNA image? She didn’t New analysis refutes James Watson’s claim he was first to recognize significance of famed photograph 51 ByTim Appenzeller science.org/content/article/ho… #womeninstem
Could you explain your research in 90 seconds? ⌛ That was the challenge for our researchers Danilo Carvalho and Will Pinney during yesterday's elevator pitch session at the #ManchesterColloquium Two brilliant snapshots of the innovative research taking place across the NBC 🔬
esa.int/Science_Exploration/Sp… was a really nice and interesting read. #Mars #MarsExpress #esa #weather
📢 Polish Journal of Ecology Rapid editorial and publication process⚡ 📊2026 average journal metrics: 3 days – first editorial decision 25 days – reviewer turnaround 68 days – final decision 11 days – acceptance to online publication 🔓 Open Access ✅ Free for authors #ecology #openscience #bioone
Our cooperation partners ROCEEH has published an article in PLOS ONE introducing the new R package "roadDB" for data retrieval from the ROCEEH Out of Africa Database (ROAD) and its relevance to reproducible science: doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0…
