Samantha Starling

An accounting of all the water that should have been and gone on Mars’s surface has come up with a discrepancy that shows just how little we understand the Red Planet’s hydrological history #Echobox=1775228306" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">newscientist.com/article/252118…

NASA just released the closest image ever taken of Jupiter... This is what a thunderstorm looks like on another planet. That single cloud is many times taller than Earth. Let that sink in.

Here are some ways in which the world has gotten better.

BREAKING🚨: NASA Mapped the Entire Ocean floor using Gravity from Space.😮

Step into an unforgettable journey of courage, humour, and high-altitude storytelling as famed mountaineer Simon Yates takes the stage with Touching The Void – My Mountain Life at The Arts Centre this February. ⛰️ 🖤 Grab your 20% Black Friday discount while it lasts!

The math on this image is insane. New Horizons transmitted at 2,000 bits per second from 3 billion miles away. Slower than a 1990s dial-up modem. It took 16 months to download all the flyby data. The spacecraft had to hit a target box 100km wide, arriving within 150 seconds of schedule, after 9 years of flight. Miss it and the preloaded observation commands point at empty space. Ten days before arrival, the spacecraft crashed and went into safe mode. Engineers had 72 hours to restore everything. The probe is now 5 billion miles out, still whispering data back to Earth. We got 50 gigabits of Pluto photos using technology slower than your phone’s bluetooth.

Discover how the longest dinosaur trackways in the world were uncovered in the UK 🦖 Researchers here at Birmingham, have helped expose yet more footprints belonging to beasts that roamed Britain more than 166 million years ago 🔗 Read more: birmingham.ac.uk/news/2025/rese…

Lunar eclipse phases

Mars at night. It will be worth the trip to just look up.

Health Data Science Seminar 💻 Explore the potential for artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning to transform health data science by joining our free webinar. Wednesday 24 September, 2 - 3.30pm For all the details and to register, visit: eventbrite.co.uk/e/160129102756…

My latest book review looks at an excellent the history of the Polynesian Triangle, @cathompsn's "Sea People". It looks at how Europeans misunderstood the history of th Polynesians and how that has been rediscovered. A brilliant read. resolutereader.blogspot.com/2023/05/christ…

The Clearest Image of Venus’s Surface, By a Lander that Melted After 1 Hour

A revolutionary new telescope at the Vera C. Rubin Observatory is sharing phenomenally detailed images of the universe, heralding a new era of discovery. 🔗 on.natgeo.com/44ray1j

First celestial image unveiled from revolutionary telescope👇 Read about our time behind the scenes at the Vera C Rubin observatory bbc.com/news/articles/…

The "immersive entertainment" boom takes user-centred experiences to new heights, but isn't it making culture a little insular, asks Arwa Haider #Echobox=1750332057" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">newscientist.com/article/mg2663…

From timetable scheduling to colouring in, and even casting a play, this nifty piece of mathematics is the answer, says Katie Steckles #Echobox=1746315255" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">newscientist.com/article/mg2663…

Introducing new updates to the OS NGD 🎉 - Roofs, including aspect, material and solar panels - Access points to key public buildings - Tunnels and street lights - New sites and site access purpose - New geographical names Explore on the OS Data Hub: ow.ly/3uKH50VpANb

My son's a little worried that Santa may skip our house because he was sometimes bad this year. I explained that Santa uses an exponentially weighted moving average to compute your goodness score, so more recent datapoints dominate and he's probably fine.

ever since i was young i wanted to transform unstructured data into actionable business insights