Science, Mathematics & Technology

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

We are at the cusp of a golden age in space science, as increasingly more entrepreneurs--Elon Musk, Richard Branson, Jeff Bezos--are seduced by the...

Developing video games--hero's journey or fool's errand? The creative and technical logistics that go into building today's hottest games can be mo...

With one famous equation, E=mc2, Einstein proved all matter can be described as energy. It is everywhere and it is everything. In this newly update...

What are the chances?! This exclamation greets the scarcely believable coincidence - you're picked up by the same taxi driver several years and tho...

A short, informal account of our ever-increasing dependence on a complex multiplicity of messages, records, documents, and data. We live in an info...

Lab Girl is a book about work, love, and the mountains that can be moved when those two things come together. It is told through Jahren's remarkabl...

When Marie was young, she was unable to go to college because she was a woman. But when she was older, her scientific work was respected around the...

A concise, nontechnical overview of the development of machine translation, including the different approaches, evaluation issues, and major player...

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

Today, the language of science is English. But the dominance of this particular language is a relatively recent phenomenon - and far from a foregon...

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

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

Boolean algebra, also called Boolean logic, is at the heart of the electronic circuitry in everything we use--from our computers and cars, to home ...

Gleick's story begins at the turn of the twentieth century with the young H. G. Wells writing and rewriting the fantastic tale that became his firs...

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...

When exactly did life begin? What really happened during the big bang--and before it? Is the universe expanding? Is dark matter real? Do we live in...

Science and technology are playing increasingly important roles in our lives. New projects in development today will fundamentally shape the world ...

Is the universe infinite? Do we know what happened before the Big Bang? Where is human consciousness located in the brain? And are there more undis...