Science & Technology

The railway revolutionised Victorian Britain, but were its trains on the right track? It was difficult to gauge.

The varied social, economic and institutional conditions that shaped science over more than two centuries.

The obsession with gifted children is an ancient one, but it took on new life in the 20th century.

Dmitri Mendeleev identified a general theory underlying all elements on 1 March 1869.

Electric cars seem to offer a solution to the problem of the internal combustion engine. But technological advances have other consequences. 

Dutch mathematician Christiaan Huygens has long been overshadowed by Isaac Newton. But he is the better example of a modern scientist. 

The long and complicated history of why there are 360 degrees in a circle.

The slippery subject of eel reproduction evaded human understanding for millennia.