Glory or Gravity?
John Hutchinson and Isaac Newton were both devout scholars who believed that the natural world and God were inextricably linked. The similarities ended there.
Science & Technology
Rocks of Ages
On his early travels across the world it was geology that struck Charles Darwin’s interest.
Genes‘R’Us: Science and Ideology in the Lysenko Controversies
The debate over whether nature or nurture guides who we are is as dependent on politics and ideology as it is on scientific research.
Knobs or Points?
Is lightning natural or divine? Opinion split royalists and republicans.
The First Live-Streaming
The théâtrophone premiered in Paris, at the International Exposition of Electricity, on 11 August 1881.
It’s Not Easy Being Green
Brazil’s cars have run on ‘green fuel’ for a century, but this has not come without costs.
Love on the Wire
The advent of telecommunications gave rise to a new literary genre through which female telegraphers and writers found social freedoms.
Weighing up the Evidence
What does it take to establish a new scientific truth? In the case of heliocentrism, the death of its sceptics.
The Battle of the Gauges
The railway revolutionised Victorian Britain, but were its trains on the right track? It was difficult to gauge.
Governing Goliath
In order to tackle the power of ‘Big Tech’, President Biden’s administration draws lessons from America’s ‘Gilded Age’.