Science & Technology

Britain's Olympic success was the result of marrying science with sporting methodology. Can the same techniques be applied to history?

The story of penicillin is well known, as are those Nobel Prize winners who were honoured for their part in its discovery. But one man’s contribution has been overlooked. Malcolm Murfett sets the record straight on the biochemist Norman G. Heatley.

The illustrious champion of science was created on July 15th, 1662.

Nicholas Mee recalls Jeremiah Horrocks, the first astronomer to observe Venus cross in front of the Sun, whose discoveries paved the way for the achievements of Isaac Newton.

The links between Dante's The Divine Comedy and the Large Hadron Collider at CERN are deeper than one might imagine.

In 1811 skilled textile workers in Britain attacked factories and factory owners to defend their livelihoods. By the time the Luddite cause hit Yorkshire in 1812, it had become a genuine mass movement.

The great military institution took flight on April 13th, 1912.

Since the 19th century, attitudes to drugs have been in constant flux, argues Victoria Harris, owing as much to fashion as to science.

The invention of the telephone, the early years of the steamboat and other great Scottish firsts.