Towards the end of Philip Ball’s marvellous book on the history of alchemy he tells the story of pioneering nuclear physicist ...

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Tanya Charles says her ancestors' history may not be written down in books, but it is written into the land. "My nan used to say scientists will never catch up to us, we're too old," she says, as rain ...

How did ancient people build the Great Pyramid of Giza 4,500 years ago without machines, cranes, or modern technology? This ...

According to a familiar story, science was born as a pastime of seventeenth-century European gentlemen, who built air pumps, traded telescopes, and measured everything from the size of the earth to ...

What if everything we're taught about the history of astronomy and physics is wrong? In his new book, "Horizons: The Global Origins of Modern Science" (Mariner Books, 2022), James Poskett, a historian ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. The Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman once recalled a friend, an artist, who would say ...

Psalm 19:1 (RSV) The heavens are telling the glory of God; and the firmament proclaims his handiwork. Acts 17:28 ... In him we live and move and have our being ... It’s very fashionable nowadays for ...

The Science History Institute aims to expand knowledge and challenge perspectives in the history of chemistry, engineering, and the life sciences. Through a wide range of programming, the Institute ...

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An analysis of genomes from some of the earliest modern humans to live in Europe reveals their ancestors interbred with Neanderthals in one period between 43,000 and 50,000 years ago. When you ...