I’m not sure whether it was elementary school science classes or Fred Flintstone’s Brontosaurus burgers that made the giant herbivore one of the most recognizable dinosaurs to me as a kid. But for ...

Amid the tumultuous confusion and complexity of modern events, it is difficult to acquire the general historical perspective so important to the scientist and the engineer of pioneering nature. Yet a ...

Two hundred and ten years ago, 22-year-old Michael Faraday accompanied a leading chemist of the early 1800s, Sir Humphry Davy, on a tour of France and Italy. This epiphanous trip transformed an ...

He created the first incandescent light, discovered the properties of nitrous oxide, invented electrochemistry, was friends with Coleridge and Southey, wrote over 160 poems and painted pictures. Late ...