Science History

Gravity: From Cave-men To Newton

to imagine a situation in which all of the effects of friction could be removed- a very smooth ...

Article - Michael White - Feb 5 2010 - 4:39pm

Albrecht Von Haller – Views And Outcomes

all the changes of state that take place, what the pulse is, what heat there is, what sort of ...

Article - Robert H Olley - Mar 18 2010 - 5:35pm

There's an awful lot of coffee in...

beverage in all but one of the languages I have looked into are derived from the Arabic qahwa, which ...

Blog Post - Robert H Olley - Dec 10 2010 - 8:43am

History Mysteries #2- The Sawdust Coast

not worried about running aground again. The bottom was soft all along the coast, padded with hundreds ...

Article - Patrick Lockerby - Jul 10 2011 - 8:51am

Charles Darwin And A Koch Brother Everyone In Science Academia Can Like

it's also good to recall the intellectual fervor Darwin's work launched all across biology. We can ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Feb 13 2015 - 1:18am

Stephen Hales- Climate Science Pioneer

But it is disappointing to find that, in spite of all the experimental facts which Hales accumulated, ...

Blog Post - Patrick Lockerby - Dec 14 2016 - 1:18pm

The True Coin of Science

disfavouring trial, well made, will much more discredit it with me than all these spurious things I have named ...

Blog Post - Patrick Lockerby - Dec 19 2016 - 2:29pm

Happy 1400th Birthday, Anania Shirakatsi

day week, lunar month and solar year were all that great so his version had a cycle of 532 years. ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Apr 20 2024 - 2:28am

John Archibald Wheeler doyen of Modern Physics

at the beginning of   career? Perhaps, most of all, a good mentor (Einstein was an exception to the ...

Blog Post - Radha Krishna - Apr 24 2009 - 9:55am

Health In The Dark Ages: Demonic Possession And Miraculous Healing

topic in a variety of disciplines and regions of Northern Europe, including all aspects of disease, ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 10 2011 - 3:29pm