Tyrants and Robots
Autocrats have deployed automatons as weapons since antiquity, not just in myth but in reality.
Autocrats have deployed automatons as weapons since antiquity, not just in myth but in reality.
As technology changes, so do ideas about the borders of the self and the nature of privacy.
A microhistory offers new insights into the creation of the Royal Society amid the intellectual brilliance of Restoration England.
Child genius, engineer, inventor and physicist, Nikola Tesla died on 7 January 1943.
Since its surprising discovery on the Aegean seabed over a century ago, the Antikythera mechanism has intrigued astrologers, classicists and historians of science.
The idea that the ancients believed in Antipodean lands to balance the globe is a modern invention – and wrong.
The 19th and 20th centuries saw a revolution in Chinese forensic science, when traditional techniques were replaced by new methods from the West. Today, the world confronts another moment of transformation in forensic science.
The news pioneer was born on July 21st, 1816.
Einstein's General Theory of Relativity was published on May 11th, 1916.