Margaret H. Hamilton, a profoundly influential computer scientist best known for leading the software engineering team at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab during NASA’s Apollo program, died at age 90.

Despite being a cornerstone of modern scientific research, open-source software development and adoption often remain siloed within individual disciplines. A package or workflow designed for one disci...

arXiv seeks its first CEO to champion open, free scientific discovery and guide the platform’s next chapter as an independent nonprofit.

I compute the eccentricity of the Earth's orbit based on the observation that there are more days between spring and fall than between fall and spring.