The table below sets out the time-scale of some of the major events in Earth history and developments in science and technology. It shows something of the parallel development of human ...

The world celebrates World Science Day every year on November 10, 2024. The theme for this year is 'Why Science Matters - ...

Researchers have studied the DNA preserved in the skeletal remains of Pompeii volcanic eruption victims. In 79 CE, the ...

Choosing the right trivia topics is crucial for creating an engaging and challenging trivia experience. From history and ...

Scans of mummies at Chicago’s Field Museum of Natural History uncovered new details about how they were prepared for the afterlife and helped solve a baffling mystery.

A paleontologist at the Natural History Museum in London chronicles the age of the famous and fascinating massive reptiles ...

For millennia, humans had one obvious and reliable source of light—the sun—and we knew the sun was essential for our survival.

For the average Earthling, touring space may still be the stuff of science fiction, but in 2000, Popular Science published a ...

Loren Graham presents the first concise, modern history of science in Russia, the Soviet Union, and the commonwealth of Independent States. Thoroughly up to date, the volume covers the Czarist period, ...

A new explanation for the Wow! signal suggests it was a chance detection of a furious flare crashing into a hydrogen cloud. But some researchers doubt that this idea has truly cracked the case ...

Science fiction (SF) writing may seem a definitively modern phenomenon, but it has a rich and varied history in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. In this course, we examine early modern SF not ...

The history of science and technology links many disciplines and cultures: scientific, technological, humanistic and social. Smith’s program in the history of science and technology is designed to ...