How Digital Museums Can Teach the History of Scientific Instruments
From provenance and conservation to accessible explanations: how digital museums can make historical scientific instruments genuinely useful to learners and researchers.
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APOD: 2026 October 18 – Sonified: Eagle Nebula Pillars
APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 October 18 –… Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss APOD Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written…
Teaching Hundreds of Languages Online: Why Course Design Matters More Than Scale
Large multilingual learning libraries promise greater access, but pronunciation, language-specific grammar, review and learner assessment determine whether a course genuinely teaches.
Forward look: 19 October – 1 November 2026
Overview of the main subjects to be discussed at meetings of the Council of the EU over the next two weeks and upcoming media events.
COP17: The world has a plan to save nature. Is it working?
The UN Secretary-General has called for an end to the “war on nature”. On Monday, governments gathering in Yerevan, Armenia, will have to confront a more practical question: are they doing enough to win the peace and put the world’s biodiversity goals back on track?
Flour sacks turned flood barriers: Gaza faces another winter without safe shelter
Like many people in the war-ravaged Gaza Strip, Ahmed Al-Omari is preparing for another winter of bitter cold and rain that threatens to cause flooding as families struggle to survive in tattered tents and damaged buildings.
APOD: 2026 October 17 – 3D 67P
APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 October 17… Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss APOD Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by…
NASA Names Stephen Cash Marshall Space Flight Center Director
NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman has named Stephen Cash director of the agency’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, effective Monday, Oct. 19. Cash, a veteran NASA engineer and aerospace executive, returns to lead the center where he began his career more than four decades ago. “Marshall contributions…
Remarks by President António Costa at the press conference following the European Council meeting of 15-16 October 2026
During the press conference held after at the end of the European Council meeting of 15-16 October 2026, President António Costa presented the main results of the discussions on competitiveness and energy prices, trade, the next multiannual financial framework, Ukraine, and migration.
European Council conclusions, 15 and 16 October 2026
On 15 and 16 October, the European Council adopted conclusions on competitiveness, Ukraine, the Republic of Moldova, the next multiannual financial framework, the Middle East, European defence and security, migration, enlargement and reforms and other items.
Artemis II Heat Shield After Splashdown
Shortly after NASA’s Artemis II mission splashed down on April 10, 2026, U.S. Navy divers captured underwater imagery of the Orion spacecraft’s heat shield. In the months after, the agency measured whether the thermal protection system effectively safeguarded the crew and Orion systems as the spacecraft reentered Earth’s…
Media advisory – Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs (Employment and social policy) Council of 19 October 2026
Main agenda items, approximate timing, public sessions and press opportunities.