Engineering: Archimedes of Syracuse In the 3rd century BCE, the Sicilian polymath Archimedes significantly advanced human understanding of mathematics, geometry and astronomy.
Victorian Era Astronomy: On Land and in the Skies In the late 19th-century, astronomical research could be practical, using...
Endings in the Novel, from Austen and Dickens to Edward St Aubyn and Rachel Cusk More than anything else, the end matters to the novel...
The Shape of Gravity: Why On Earth Are Planets Spherical? We often take for granted that planets, shaped by the...
The Sky at Night, Tonight: A New View of the Changing Sky On a remote mountain top in Chile, scanning the sky...