My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair! In 1818, Percy Shelley wrote...
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It is an undisputed fact that vast numbers of human beings enjoy wine the planet over. But knowledge of exactly...
The Hunterian Museum has a fantastic number of human and non-human anatomical and pathological specimens in innumerable jars for your viewing pleasure that...
The majority of people in the world today think democracy and gender equality are good and that violence and wealth...
The Royal Society may be one of the world’s oldest and most prestigious scientific bodies, but what has it done...
William Rowan Hamilton (1805-1865) revolutionized algebra with his discovery of quaternions, a non-commutative algebraic system, as well as his earlier...
Science London's Scibar is back, curated once again by the Art Necro team. Throughout history humans have sought to embellish...
The Physicist in the title you will have heard of: Albert Einstein, patent clerk turned genius, inventor of E=mc2, origin...
Discover how a collaborative research approach is bringing new life to medieval theories about the universe. Robert Grosseteste was an...
Little Boy, the first atomic bomb, was dropped over Hiroshima on August the 6th 1945. To coincide with the 70th...
2014 is likely to be remembered as the year of Ebola. From the first case in March 2014, we all...
Wax model by sculptor Clemente Susini from the Specola museum; Susini was employed by Paolo Mascagni to model his anatomical...
The theory of evolution by natural selection is undoubtedly one of science’s most famous theories; there are not many people...
Julius Caesar’s health problems may have been caused by strokes, not epilepsy, according to recent research from Imperial College. The...
Teasdale, M. D. et al. (2015) Paging through history: parchment as a reservoir of ancient DNA for next generation sequencing....
As part of our new science events listing, we pick an event coming up this week. Valentine's Day at the...
44 years ago today, Apollo 14 landed on the moon. See more here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1NGXL3wc0M Image: NASA
Angelina Chrysanthou backs sugar Sugar is one of the oldest cooking ingredients, dating back to 326 BC. Since then it...
This isn’t just a line across a courtyard. This is the prime meridian line, and the home of Greenwich Mean...
Humankind was once dependent on the location of the sun to determine the time of day. With the onset of...
Sundial The sundial is the earliest known timekeeping device. The first known sundial dates to over five thousand years ago,...
By Daniel Pick Oxford University Press ‘The Pursuit of the Nazi Mind’ looks at the position of psychoanalysts during the...
What do HG Wells’s Invisible Man, Spider-Man’s foe The Lizard and Sir Isaac Newton all have in common? Despite sounding...
In this issue of Spandex Wizards, I’ll be exploring the birth of the bicycle’s pneumatic tyre. I’m a keen cyclist,...
I attended a seminar last October by Professor Colin Jones, of Queen Mary, University of London, in which he talked...
On Wednesday 16th January, Alanna Orpen went to see the historian, writer and broadcaster, Dr. Louise Foxcroft, talk about her...
1 Partridge in a Pear Tree Aspirin is a salicylate derived from the bark of willow trees. It is an...
If you joined me on an amble I had through central London last week, you would have seen – as...
You won't be needing these... The mad-scientist stereotype is one of Hollywood’s guilty pleasures. There is the familiar storyline of an...
UK Conference of Science Journalists 25 June 2012 The Royal Society, London "I think every writer, every journalist, every scholar,...
