A 2017 survey suggested almost half of Americans think that having sex with robots will become a...
Technology
War animals have been with us for a very long time. There’s a good chance you’ve come...
Preserving foodstuffs by mechanical refrigeration became an industrial possibility only in the 1870s and 1880s. The refrigerator...
Spreading false and distorted information – called “dezinformatsiya” after the Russian word for “disinformation” – is an...
Since the foundation of Versailles by King Louis XIV, the city often lacked water. In 1859 Versailles...
One area in which Archimedes excelled was in the design and construction of great war machines. By...
Wilbur Wright, American pioneer in aviation, and Paul Zens, famous French flier, preparing for two man flight...
Fire in the sky has always exerted a powerful hold on our imagination, even as early scientists...
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...
An IDF soldier from the C4I Corps types on a computer. (Photo: IDF Spokesperson’s Unit) Israel has become...
Medieval townsfolk needed very different sorts of technologies than did rural farmers, and they eagerly adopted tools...
Véronique Pagnier, Stanhope Press from Fontaine de Vaucluse, France, Creative Commons Share Alike (2011). One of the...
Do you want to be friends with this person? Sasun Bughdaryan Almost every online deception, fraud and...
Getty Images Survey data shows a public that is conflicted about how law enforcement adopts new technologies...
Law enforcement officials have begun using commercial and bespoke hacking tools to interfere with computer systems in...
CSIRAC was originally built in Sydney by the CSIRO before being transferred to Melbourne University. Melbourne University,...
Noria Waterwheel / Wikimedia Commons The fundamental processes of agriculture, pottery making, and cloth making, plus language,...
Waterwheel, Darley Mill Centre / Wikimedia Commons Exploring the idea that we must think of technology in much...
Water wheel at Molino de la Albolafia, Córdoba / Photo by Elliott Brown, Wikimedia Commons We may assume...
The coils winding facility building in France, where a global effort to build the ITER fusion energy...
A particularly fruitful moment for technological innovation? Viktor M Vasnetsov Not all technologies are created equal. Researchers devised...
Teeming with secrets… edella/Shutterstock European scientists had pioneered a technique for reading papyrus scrolls from Herculaneum without unrolling...
Ben Birchall/PA Wire From sundials to atomic clocks, a journey through the way humans have measured time. By Dr. Kenneth Grattan...
Image by Ibrahim.ID, Wikimedia Commons Well, that’s an old story and here’s why. By Dr. Margaret M....
What role did you play? Composite of Christos Georghiou and sdecoret/Shutterstock.com, CC BY-ND The current reckoning with data has been a long...
In 2016, a coalition of media, tech, and community organizations launched the Equitable Internet Initiative, a project...
By Dr. Marcus Popplow / 07.06.2017 Professor of the History of Technical-Scientific Civilization Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)...
By Dr. David Blanke Joe B. Frantz Associate Professor of History Texas A&M University-Corpus Christie U.S. history textbooks...
Visualization of the proposed SPARC tokamak experiment. Using high-field magnets built with newly available high-temperature superconductors, this...