The story of the Gimli Glider - Or what happens when a Boeing 767 runs out of fuel over Canada but the pilot remembers an abandoned airfield since used for car racing buff.ly/2G97RWP

EXCLUSIVE WELT and Repubblica. Kate Bingham: Why the UK strategy on Covid vaccines has been a great success What Boris Johnson said when he appointed her, the secrets of UK success, what Britain did and the EU didn't, the "fake news" of doses from... repubblica.it/cronaca/2021/0…

Hubble Image Directly Shows How Gravity Bends Space lightsinthedark.com/2020/11/17/hub…

The moment that my team dreamed of for years, now a reality. Dare mighty things. #CountdownToMars

Your front-row seat to my Mars landing is here. Watch how we did it. #CountdownToMars

I've been so busy I have barely had time to celebrate the US release of First Light. This video is from the pre-order stage but very much still applies. Writing First Light gave me back my passion and reminded me why I fought so hard to stay in science. barnesandnoble.com/w/first-light-…

December 25th Launch xkcd.com/2559/ m.xkcd.com/2559/

44 years ago today, the BBC aired its latest science fiction series. Dark, violent and dystopian it pitted a group of criminals against a neo-fascist Federation in a doomed battle for survival and freedom. This is the story of #Blakes7...

Morning. Another nice illustration of just how much mid-infrared astronomy is about to improve, comparing part the Large Magellanic Cloud as seen by Spitzer & now by #JWST 👍 Spitzer: 85cm primary, IRAC 8 microns JWST: 6.5m primary, MIRI 7.7 microns

"The toll includes the University Library in Kharkiv, which held 3 million volumes, including many early printed books and manuscripts. In March 2022 a missile exploded in the Rare Book Library, destroying or damaging more than 60 000 precious volumes." theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

RIP Stanley Deser. Today I learned that he, Arnowitt, and Misner developed the ADM formalism on a kindergarten blackboard in Denmark. nytimes.com/2023/05/08/sci…

This is an incredible paper, with the discovery of a pile of free-floating planets in a young star-forming region (Orion/Trapezium). The craziest part: 9% are binaries! Like, two Jupiters orbiting each other -- but not orbiting a star! arxiv.org/abs/2310.01231

Ten months ago, we launched the Vesuvius Challenge to solve the ancient problem of the Herculaneum Papyri, a library of scrolls that were flash-fried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. Today we are overjoyed to announce that our crazy project has succeeded. After 2000

Time-lapse of the aurorae over Oxford last night! This sequence of 5.5 hours compressed into 1 minute. North is at the top. At times the aurorae were so bright that parts of the images saturated and so lost colour. An amazing display of the dynamical northern lights! #aurora

I'll just leave this here: theguardian.com/games/article/…

Saddened beyond belief by the sudden passing of our boss Ian Shipsey. Ian was remarkable, in his science & as a passionate unselfish force for good, who made a huge contribution to ⁦Department of Physics at University of Oxford⁩ ⁦NSF-DOE Rubin Observatory⁩ & much else. mpls.ox.ac.uk/latest/news/ia…

“This is nice behaviour, that I write to you again and again, and you pay no attention to me.” This almost 4,000-year-old Babylonian letter in clay is proof that we have been finding ways to say “per my last email” for some time

Cavafy on DOGE (Sachperoglou translation):

My latest cartoon for New Scientist