#Astronomer

Ash Jogalekar

curiouswavefn

Thread: Hans Bethe was born on July 2, 1906. Bethe made so many contributions to so many fields of physics that the astronomer John Bahcall joked that there was a

Cate Eland

RomancingNope

When I was in middle school, my favorite book series was the Night World by LJ Smith. The plot of all the books revolve around teenagers--a combination of humans and

Dan Zak

MrDanZak

Okay, another UFO article from the New York Times, by the same duo from previous installments: Ralph Blumenthal (a former Times reporter) and Leslie Kean (a freelance UFO-phile).How 'bout a

Joseph T Noony

JoeAgneya

Once upon a time, long before the British, we had our own Vedic system of time keeping. We had 30 muhurtas in a day. Life was quicker paced, organized and

Robert McNees

mcnees

The astronomer Vera Rubin was born #OTD in 1928. Her work on galactic rotation curves became one of the main pieces of evidence for the existence of dark matter, and

Julien Girard

djulik

Thanks @beckyferreira for this nice piece quoting me and not just my infamous tweet. To temper things down (because they got out of control, seriously): I don't hate @elonmusk and

Tony Finch

fanf

In about 1900, the American astronomer Newcombe published his “tables of the sun”, a very good model of the solar system based on centuries of observations, that was used to

History Under Your Feet

HistorifyNow

Today is Jayanthi of Nilkantha Somayaji one of the foremost mathematicians and astronomers of the Kerala school, known for his astronomical treatise Tantrasamgraha and a commentary on Aryabhatta. One of

Peter Ellis

almostconverge

Mini Hungarian language lesson: music.As my series is drawing to its close, I thought I might as well post something 100% self-indulgent: a list of bands I like.Most of them

Dr. Moudhy Al-Rashid

Moudhy

As we begin to bid farewell to NEOWISE, I want to take a moment to remember the comets that found their way into cuneiform tablets thousands of years ago, and

Phil Plait

BadAstronomer

Seen all those pix of Jupiter from last night showing three or four of its moons? Yeah, it actually has more. A lot more. A LOT lot more.A new paper

Scott B. Weingart

scott_bot

Now that everyone's got their eyes on Saturn: we're pretty lucky to be seeing Saturn at this angle during the conjunction with Jupiter, so we can actually see its rings

Maths In India

MathsInIndia

In the history of mathematics, the concept of zero is rather new. Humans appeared on the earth approximately 200,000 years ago and only around 3000 BCE, men learned mathematics. Zero

Rutter Lab

RutterLab

For this week's #MitoMonday, we highlight the late great Lynn Margulis and the Endosymbiotic Theory. #MitoLegend aka #ScientificRebel aka #VindicatedHeretic aka #SciencesUnrulyEarthMother Lynn Margulis (born Lynn Petra Alexander) gradua

Brandon Finnigan

B_M_Finnigan

So, every year around this time, I push y’all on one gift you should think about, if you have the curiosity for it, or your kids or relatives do:that first

Robert McNees

mcnees

Ada Lovelace, née Augusta Ada Byron, was born #OTD in 1815. A mathematician and the first published computer programmer, she offered a prescient vision of what computing would become.Portrait: Margaret

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