"What got you into astrophysics?" It's a question I'm often asked at outreach events, and I answer by pointing to my early ...

At the age of 23 Marc Koska came up with an invention credited with saving millions of lives. Forty years later, he thinks ...

"Inventions That Haven't Changed Since Your Grandparents Were in Diapers," is filled with surprising items we use daily! With ...

The industries and inventions that arose in the 19th century had mostly provided the building blocks of America's infrastructure -- steel, canals, railroads, oil, coal, and of course big daddy ...

These 19th century inventions form part of the technological bedrock upon which our modern-day society has been built, and the book continues with some iconic images from the 20th century.

Alcohol is a window into American history, from 17th-century rum production to young people’s declining interest in drinking ...

He was only a cat,’ reads the headstone. ‘But he was human enough to be a great comfort in hours of loneliness and pain.’ ...

Inventor James Howard wants the museum to inspire youth who "need to see someone that looks like them to be inspired to ...

By the mid-19th Century, medical minds had begun to focus ... She subsequently went into a deep sleep but later recovered. Wood's invention coincided in the same year, by all accounts completely ...

Since photography's inventions in the first half of the 19th century the medium has profoundly shaped how we comprehend and interact with the world. This course focuses on the major social and ...