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After watching "Five Million Years To Earth", a terrific mix of science, horror and anthropology, it's no crime to associate British horror cinema with Hammer Films, even though that was not one of the bloody Dracula films which earned them their fame.
Explore 10 new works related to particle physics and astrophysics, plus a bonus book on math.
How did ancient Greek thinkers influence modern astronomy? And how did ancient Greek astronomy shape ideas around humanity’s place in the universe? Ancient Greek thinkers made huge contributions, along with other ancient civilisations, to accelerate our understanding of the stars…
Vera Rubin would not have called herself the discoverer of dark matter. In fact, she once tried to prevent a press release from even including the word “discovery,” instead suggesting that the National Science Foundation's press team write that her observations “provided convincing evidence.” It is, after all, rare that any topic has only a single devoted researcher and unlikely that a scientific discovery of such magnitude would be made in the absence of a support network of contributors, despite what many biographies would have readers believe. Unlike such tomes, Jacqueline and Simon...
Hello and welcome to my blog on “deep carbon science” –– a fascinating research field in the geosciences. My history of deep carbon science gives lively accounts of 150 scientists who contributed to the development of this new field over a period of four centuries. I write history by telling stories about interesting people. Here’s an extract from my account of the research of the great chemist Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier (1743–1794). At the end of the eighteenth century, the quest to understand how living organisms interact with atmospheric gases dominated the research fronti...