Margaret Hamilton, Apollo’s software guardian, leaves a towering geek legacy

Margaret Hamilton, lead Apollo flight software engineer, in the Apollo Command Module.

Software pioneer Margaret Hamilton has died at 90, leaving a legacy that spans Apollo 11, the birth of software engineering, and a lasting mark on geek culture.

Lettuce plants being grown in a vertically-stacked hydroponic system

Canada’s new $750M food security strategy leans on vertical farming, but energy, cost and crop limits show the high-tech plant stacks aren’t a silver bullet.

Finland has ordered Google to halt work at two AI data center sites over alleged illegal forest clearing, spotlighting Europe’s uneasy AI infrastructure boom.

Amazon Project Kuiper rockest taking satellites to space

Amazon’s Project Kuiper has built 1,000 satellites and is eyeing an end-of-year launch, finally giving SpaceX’s Starlink real competition in orbit.

Astronauts looking out of a cave on the moon toward earth

NASA’s trio of new lunar missions will scout caves, ice and hazards, turning the agency’s first Moon base from sci‑fi concept into concrete plans.

James Webb’s latest survey of extreme debris disks reveals Mars-sized planetary smashups, offering fresh clues to how collisions forged rocky worlds and our Moon.

Sea Surface anomalies across the Earth in July 2023 during the 2023-2024 El Niño event

A new study finds the 2023–24 El Niño pushed most tropical forests into months of record heat and drought—a preview of the next 20 years without deep cuts to emissions.

Human cancer cells, specifically HeLa cells, with DNA stained blue and cyan. The central and rightmost cell are in interphase. The cell on the left is going through mitosis and its chromosomes have condensed.

Scientists say senescent zombie cells and a single immune receptor called EP2 may drive aging across organs, and new therapies aim to flip that switch.

Madonna Rebel Heart Tour 2015 - Stockholm

A Danish team analyzed four decades of Madonna interviews and found her speaking voice dodges normal aging, blending biology, branding and vocal control.

New cosmological simulations turn the universe into a giant sandbox, revealing that our Sun’s quiet Milky Way suburb may be close to the best spot for life.