A Galactic Embrace

Mid-infrared data from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (in white, gray, and red) and X-ray data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory (in blue) come together in this photo of colliding spiral galaxies released on Dec. 1, 2025. The pair grazed one another millions of years ago; billions of years in […]

How tech worker activism has grown more cautious as companies crack down and once-privileged workers realize they don’t have much leverage (Noam Scheiber/New York Times)

Noam Scheiber / New York Times: How tech worker activism has grown more cautious as companies crack down and once-privileged workers realize they don’t have much leverage  —  They increasingly see themselves as rank-and-file workers who have traditional gripes with their companies.  —  Five weeks into a strike …

Dec. 28, 1882: The birth of Arthur Eddington

From a young age, Arthur Eddington, who was born Dec. 28, 1882, in England, excelled in math and physics. After graduating from Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1905, he became the chief assistant to the astronomer royal the following year. While famous for his 1919 eclipse expedition to verify Einstein’s General […]