History of Science

If you could be invisible, what would you do? The chances are that it would have something to do with power, wealth or sex. Perhaps all three. But ...

Cold War-era FBI files on famous scientists, including Neil Armstrong, Isaac Asimov, Albert Einstein, Richard Feynman, Alfred Kinsey, and Timothy L...

WINNER OF THE 2022 BARKER BOOK AWARDS FOR NON-FICTION. Heartwarming. THE TIMES A delightful read. KATE MACDOUGALL Just the thing for dog lovers. P...

With the recent landing of the Mars rover Curiosity, it seems safe to assume that the idea of being curious is alive and well in modern science--th...

From astronomy to psychology, this beautifully illustrated chronology presents the most important and groundbreaking milestones in science.    Awa...

How does the physics we know today - a highly professionalised enterprise, inextricably linked to government and industry - link back to its origin...

The epic, page-turning history of how a group of physicists toppled the Newtonian universe in the early decades of the twentieth century. Marie Cur...

In 1972, James Lovelock and Lynn Margulis began collaborating on the Gaia hypothesis. They suggested that over geological time, life on Earth has h...

A New Scientist Book of the Year Prehistory is all around us. We just need to know where to look. Juan José Millás has always felt like he doesnt q...