Another Frenchman, Pierrre Duchamp from Lyon started making umbrellas with quilled steel ribs as we’d recognise them today, around 1848, whilst in England, Thomas Fox opened a shop in Fore Street in ...

The modern office job is a relatively recent invention shaped by centuries of administrative evolution. From ancient scribes to Industrial Revolution clerks, office work slowly became central to ...

The essays in a new anthology offer two distinct ways of interpreting the Promethean legacy of scientific progress.

Until now, it was believed that mathematical thinking only began once people gained the knowledge of numbers and writing. However, a new study reveals a potentially earlier origin of math hidden in ...

The winged serpent in Ancient Greece reveals a profound, long-forgotten link between distant ancient civilizations.

Immigration raids in South Texas are starting to hit the economy Photos: Patriots player shows up to Super Bowl in shackles, ...

The family science fiction film "Honey, I Shrunk the Kids" (1989) was followed by two sequel films, "Honey, I Blew Up the Kid ...

If you've used a vending machine lately, you've probably noticed that they're pretty high-tech now, but this invention was ...

From ‘digital twins’ to innovative computer chips and ultra-thin endoscopes, Sony and Nature recognize the most powerful tech minds of today Randles won a mid-career prize for her advances in ...

The breakthrough is often credited to Scottish inventor John Logie Baird—but the real history is far more complicated and collaborative. John Logie Baird with his transmitting station on March 19, ...

Deep in the Cambodian jungle lie the ruins of Angkor, a marvel of urban engineering and seat of the once-mighty Khmer Empire. New discoveries are revealing how this ancient metropolis was built – and ...

Civilisations name their ages after materials. In school, we learn about the Stone Age, the Bronze Age – and we are currently in a silicon age characterised by computers and phones. What might define ...