Gladys West was instrumental in developing the mathematics behind GPS - but until now her story has remained untold.

One of the most prestigious scientific bodies in the world is considering expelling Musk after his appearance at Tommy Robinson’s extremist London rally

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Over millennia, our view of the stars has shifted, because of Earth’s wobble. It may be time to rethink your sign.

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When you might want to take some notes, you might pull open an app and type, or maybe open a paper book and write – and if you're the latter, your notes could end up in an exhibition like this.

Dr Sarah M. Griffin, Curator of Unfolding Time: The Medieval Pocket Calendar From February to May 2025, Lambeth Palace Library hosted Unfolding Time: The Medieval Pocket Calendar.[1] The exhibition brought together a rare and remarkable type of medieval folded book for the first time—the concertina-fold almanac—and set them alongside treasures from Lambeth’s own collection. Folded in a zigzag pattern to form a neat, easily transportable packet of information, their playful form is emphasised by their colourful and almost entirely pictorial content, all of which relates to time.

Cambridge’s Institute of Astronomy is trying to find a photo of Annie Walker, who died in 1940, to give her star billing

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This program will be presented virtually via Zoom webinar.In 1716, British astronomer John Flamsteed built a pyre near the Royal Observatory. On it, he burned pages from a book he wrote as a “sacrifice to truth.” The pages were from the 1712 edition of Flamsteed’s Historiae coelestis, which Isaac Newton and Edmund Halley had printed despite Flamsteed’s vehement objections. What happened after the fire? How did copies of Historiae coelestis spread, and who circulated them? Not all the offending pages went up in flames. Flamsteed kept a few copies of the objectionable sections. In one copy, recently acquired by the Linda Hall Library, Flamsteed and his assistant took pen to paper in pursuit of truth: striking through, crossing out, and annotating Newton and Halley’s mistakes. Join scholar Emma Hill and the Library’s Vice President for Special Collections and Public Services Jason W. Dean as they introduce Hill’s census of surviving copies and discuss how the census has uncovered new information about the book’s production and the human story surrounding it.