History of Science

The fascinating untold story of how the ancients imagined robots and other forms of artificial lifeand even invented real automated machines The fi...

This whistlestop guide teaches you everything you need to know about the fascinating science of genetics! Genetics is the study of heredity, and re...

Does an authentic Andy Warhol painting need to be painted by Andy Warhol? Why do audiences feel outraged when they find out that scenes from their ...

William Shakespeare found dozens of different ways to kill off his characters, and audiences today still enjoy the same reactions - shock, sadness,...

In the ongoing debate about evolution, science and faith face off. But the truth is both sides are right and wrong.In one corner: Atheists like Ric...

What does it take to be an inventor? Judging by the ingenious individuals who have come into The Life Scientific studio in the last eight years, th...

Science has a reputation as the most logical and rational of human pastimes but this has not always been the case. From the inventor Nikola Tesla,...

From the structure of the atom to the jet engine, from the world's fossil record to the theory of relativity: here are the critical breakthroughs i...

This book will take the story of astronomy on from where Allan Chapman left it in Stargazers, and bring it almost up to date, with the developments...

'Daring, learned and humane ... A revelatory restoration of wonder' Stephen Greenblatt. We no longer think, like the ancient Chinese did, that the ...

Space and time on earth are regulated by the prime meridian, 0°, which is, by convention, based at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich. But the meridi...

An exploration of the changing conceptions of the iconic Space Shuttle and a call for a new vision of spaceflight The thirty years of Space Shuttle...

Since the dawn of time, man has sought to improve his health and that of his neighbour. The human race, around the world, has been on a long and co...

From earliest times, man has struggled to control his environment and his fate, and a big part of that has always been his health. From the ancient...

By the early 17th century the Scientific Revolution was well under way. Philosophers and scientists were throwing off the yoke of ancient authority...

Valium. Paxil. Prozac. Prescribed by the millions each year, these medications have been hailed as wonder drugs and vilified as numbing and addicti...

Nobel laureate Erwin Schrödinger was one of the most distinguished scientists of the twentieth century; his lectures on the history and philosophy ...

Founded around 1700 by a group of German Lutherans known as Pietists, the Halle Orphanage became the institutional headquarters of a universal semi...

Starting in the 1950s, US physicists dominated the search for elementary particles; aided by the association of this research with national securit...

Named one of Book Riots Six Great Nonfiction Books about Time:  a tour of clocks throughout the centuriesfrom the sandglass to the telomerethat rev...

One of Gardens Illustrated's Best Books of 2020Acclaimed author David Mabberley provides a ground-breaking analysis of early European understanding...