Serbian scientist Milutin Milanković changed our understanding of Earth’s climate—and did a key part of his work while detained by Austro-Hungarian forces Rudy Molinek Chemists accidentally ...

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Despite its proximity to other groups of Neanderthals and the era’s modern humans, the lineage of the specimen, dubbed ...

While modern humans tend to think of science in terms of innovations made during the past 100 to 200 years, mankind has ...

Infamous Israeli spy agency has not claimed responsibility for Hezbollah's exploding pagers but has 'decades-long' list of ...

Steve Silberman, who has died aged 66, was a science writer who became a tireless advocate for the rights of those with ...

Pacific Standard Time (PST) is an initiative of the Getty Museum and its Foundation that over the next five months will see ...

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And the crew of SpaceX’s Polaris Dawn attempted one this week and made history with the first spacewalk from a commercial ...

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 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 ...

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 ...