It was a matter of the right eclipse, the right place, and the right time. By Charles...
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Humboldt almost invented the electric battery– in fact, he came very close. Alexander von Humboldt was born...
The first recorded observations of comets, solar eclipses, and supernovae were made in China. Introduction The history...
Was there something about the Neanderthals’ cognitive capacity that didn’t measure up? By Dr. Anna GoldfieldArchaeologist One...
For Georgian Londoners, the allure of electric animals was both intellectual and sensual. By Ruth Garde / 04.06.2017 Curator,...
Many machinists even created their own variations of the difference engine after Babbage’s death. Introduction The 2008...
The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries saw a growth in the inland exploration of Latin America. Introduction The...
Sir Francis Bacon developed a method for philosophers to use in weighing the truthfulness of knowledge. How...
Emile Herman Grubbe discovered the x-rays could cure, but he was right for the wrong reasons. Radiation...
How a New York farmer’s elaborate hoax “proved” giants roamed the Earth. One Sunday afternoon in October...
Forensic medicine, also called “medical jurisprudence” or “legal medicine,” emerged in the 1600s. The Rise of Forensics...
Aristotle studied developing organisms, among other things, in ancient Greece, and his writings shaped Western philosophy and...
In 1884 Edwin Abbott Abbott published Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, perhaps the first ever book that...
Chinese alchemists developed methods for manipulating minerals and altering the state of substances. Introduction Most of us...
Exploring the impact of Labillardière’s work following a voyage to Australasia. This article, Jacques Labillardière’s Contribution to...
Some general principles for approaching the topic of knowledge transfer and science transfer. Abstract We are all...
The history of biology, built upon the thoroughness and insight of Aristotle and Galen, passed onto the...
Could seeing things in black-and-white terms influence people’s views on scientific questions? Lightspring/Shutterstock.com Why do some people reject...
Flickr, Creative Commons The recent intrusion of pseudoscience into mainstream scientific literature is a cause for concern....
The spiral of Theodorus up to the triangle with a hypotenuse of √17 / Wikimedia Commons A pseudoscience is...
Franklin advanced a scientific – not supernatural – understanding of astronomical events such as eclipses. His satirical...
Preserving foodstuffs by mechanical refrigeration became an industrial possibility only in the 1870s and 1880s. The refrigerator...
The pseudoscience, conspiracy theory and woo spreading across the world wreaks havoc on those that buy into it. News of anti-vaxxer movements,...
Acoustical science fundamentally transformed the ways that Victorians conceptualized the relations between aesthetics and the body. This...
Making sure what’s intended is what’s heard can be more difficult than it seems. Melvin Gaal (mindsharing.eu)...
Is or is not? Albert Einstein and Nils Bohr attend the Solway conference in 1920 in Brussels,...
Fire in the sky has always exerted a powerful hold on our imagination, even as early scientists...
Book on homeopathy and homeopathic “medicine”. / Creative Commons How science can help with management of misinformation. By Dr....
In the 19th century, electricity held life in the balance, with the power to execute – or...
Electrified humans brought education and performance together with a spark in the 18th century. By Ruth Garde / 04.12.2017...