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By Emily Rees Koerner and Brigitte Stenhouse

Happy Birthday Mary Somerville!

Research Fellow Emily Rees Koerner and Brigitte Stenhouse, Lecturer in History of Mathematics at The Open University, celebrate the ‘Queen of Science’ and her enthusiasm for maths and science.

`Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi, a celebrated medieval Persian astronomer from the 10th century, is a key figure in the history of astronomy. He is famed for his great star catalogue, and for making the earliest known reference to a galaxy other than the Milky Way.

By Sandra Knapp, Tom McCarter and John Tweddle

The Science of Nature – the Nature of Science

When you walk up Exhibition Road towards Hyde Park, passing by the shrapnel pocked façade of the Victoria and Albert Museum, to the west you will see a small road that appears to end in an ornate gate – this is Museum Lane.

Newly suspended from the ceiling of the Making the Modern World gallery in the Science Museum is Spirit of Innovation, the world’s fastest all-electric aircraft. Former Assistant Curator Laura Büllesbach reveals insights into its ground-breaking design, the technological boundaries it pushes and what the aircraft might mean for the future of sustainable aviation.