Science, Mathematics & Technology

Electricity was the scientific fashion of the Enlightenment, 'an Entertainment for Angels, rather than for Men'. Lecturers attracted huge audiences...

Are we alone in the Universe, or are there as many planets supporting life as there are stars in the sky? It's one of the most important and fascin...

The controversial science that claims to have revolutionised economics. For centuries, economics was dominated by the idea that we are rational ind...

In the late 1940s, a handful of visionaries were working to steer Europe towards a more peaceful future through science, and CERN, the European par...

All the matter and light we can see in the universe makes up a trivial 5 percent of everything. The rest is hidden. This could be the biggest puzzl...

Progress in genetics today would not be possible without Darwin's revolution, but the mysterious man who laid the rational basis for undermining be...

When the Apollo astronauts walked on the Moon in 1969, many people imagined Mars would be next. However NASA's Viking 1, which landed in 1976, was ...

In 1859, Charles Darwin shocked the world with a radical theory - evolution by natural selection. One hundred and fifty years later, his theory sti...

Genetics is the newest of all sciences - nothing useful was known about inheritance until just over a century ago. Now genetics is exploding, and b...

On 14 September 2015, after 50 years of searching, gravitational waves were detected for the first time and astronomy changed for ever. Until then,...

Francis Bacon - a leading figure in the history of science - never made a major discovery, provided a lasting explanation of any physical phenomena...

When Pete Etchells was 14, his father died from motor neurone disease. In order to cope, he immersed himself in a virtual world - first as an escap...

Faraday's forte was electricity, a revolutionary force in nineteenth-century society. The electric telegraph had made mass-communication possible a...

When Nicolaus Copernicus claimed that the Earth was not stationary at the centre of the universe but circled the Sun, he brought about a total revo...

For centuries mankind has waged war against the infections that, left untreated, would have the power to wipe out communities, or even entire popul...

In Science for Life acclaimed science writer Brian Clegg cuts through the vested interests and confusing contradictory statements that litter the m...

Was the pursuit of scientific truth really what drove Enlightenment science? When the imperial explorer James Cook returned from his first voyage t...

Quantum physics is strange. It tells us that a particle can be in two places at once. Indeed, that particle is also a wave, and everything in the q...

Having escaped domestic servitude in Germany by teaching herself to sing, and established a career in England, Caroline Herschel learned astronomy ...

In 2003, Russian physicists Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov found a way to produce graphene - the thinnest substance in the world - by using st...

The history of the computer is entwined with that of the modern world and with the life of one man, the brilliant but troubled Alan Turing. How did...

Popular science master Brian Clegg's new book is an entertaining tour through the science of what makes you you. From the atomic level, through lif...