Arguing by Design
David Nash on how Victorian arguments about design in the universe echo in science-theology debates today.
Science & Technology
A Healing History of North and South
Penny Johnston introduces the National Museum of Civil War Medicine in Frederick, Maryland.
Alfred Nobel: Dynamite Inventor Dies in Italy
Richard Cavendish remembers the life of Alfred Nobel, who died on December 10th, 1896.
The Channel Tunnel
Michael Bonavia on the long-delayed link between Britain and the Continent.
How the World Became Smaller
From pigeon post to the Internet - Dagmar Lorenz on how the communications revolution has produced the global village.
How Science and Technology Changed Art
Andrea Wolter-Abele looks at how machines and industrial society provoked new concepts of creativity.
The Heavens and the Earth
Rudolf Kippenhahn on how astronomy has altered our vision of the universe - from 10th-century Cairo to the Big Bang.
The 20th-Century Scientific-Technical Revolution
Mikulas Teich looks at the impact of scientific transformations since 1900, and how these changes have produced a new world culture and global organisation.
The Autobahn Myth
Uwe Oster on the motorway prototype that Hitler hijacked.
The Rise and Fall of the Age of Miracles
Roy Porter charts the whirlwind of medical triumphs that promised limitless progress in human health and our more sober reflections on the eve of the third millennium.