In 1987, a nondescript magic brick laid the foundation for a $40 billion dollar industry. The breakthrough device was the ...

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 life cycles of plants and trees A collection of short science videos for primary schools explaining plant life cycles and the living processes plants support. Three short films for 5 to 7 year ...

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

Scientific American covers the most important and exciting research, ideas and knowledge in science, health ... and advancing social justice. History Founded 1845, Scientific American is the ...

The department has particular strengths in the History of Science, Technology and the Environment, and in Global History. Historians are not traditional scientists; there are no experiments we conduct ...

The famed science guy spoke with Rolling Stone about why he's backing Kamala Harris and this presidential election's high ...

I’ll never forget the way Mom’s face lit up after I digitized videos of her late brother Harold Jr.’s wedding. Tragically, he died in a car accident not long after his wedding day.

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 ...