History of science
Ancient Greeks: Science and Wisdom review – a show from the dark ages
A chance to teach us about history’s greatest thinkers goes shamefully wasted in this dumbed-down science exhibition
Jonathan Jones
19, Nov, 2021 @12:08 PM
The Guardian view on the god of science: a divine but rational disagreement | Editorial
Editorial: A key maths tool during the pandemic came about because of an 18th-century debate about Christianity. The lesson we can draw today is that moral philosophy matters
Editorial
06, Jun, 2021 @5:25 PM
Did Derby build the world? How the Museum of Making bounced back
After two fires and an £18m makeover, this redbrick mill has been reborn as a shrine to Derby’s astonishing manufacturing prowess, where everything from clocks and clogs to telephones and tights were made
Oliver Wainwright
24, May, 2021 @2:50 PM
Extra Life: A Short History of Living Longer review – the gobsmacking truth about vaccines
Want a booster shot of knowledge? David Olusoga and Steven Johnson’s new show will teach you about the magic, and the horrors, behind the medical breakthroughs of our time
Lucy Mangan
18, May, 2021 @10:00 PM
Research suggests cancer not as rare as thought in medieval Britain
Analysis of bones from sixth to 16th centuries reveals the disease was 10 times more prevalent than expected
Nicola Davis Science correspondent
29, Apr, 2021 @11:01 PM
Building a legacy: world’s first factory rises again as a museum of making
Amid a global surge of interest in creating and mending, a shrine for the makers movement is set to open in Derby
Jamie Doward
03, Jan, 2021 @9:45 AM
The Guardian view on natural history: children need to know
Editorial: With or without a new GCSE, pupils must be taught to think about life on Earth
Editorial
15, Jun, 2020 @6:39 PM
Did a coronavirus cause the pandemic that killed Queen Victoria's heir?
The Great Russian Flu of the early 1890s may have been a Covid-like virus that crossed to humans from cows, say scientists
Robin McKie
31, May, 2020 @7:17 AM
Mass grave shows how Black Death devastated the countryside
Grave in Lincolnshire dates to medieval pandemic of 1348 and reveals rural plague catastrophe
Esther Addley
18, Feb, 2020 @12:00 PM
How astrology paved the way for predictive analytics
Astrology has influenced science for millennia, argues a new book – and it endures in algorithmic data modelling
Philip Ball
11, Jan, 2020 @6:00 PM
‘Perhaps the most important isotope’: how carbon-14 revolutionised science
The discovery that carbon atoms act as a marker of time of death transformed everything from biochemistry to oceanography – but the breakthrough nearly didn’t happen
Robin McKie
10, Aug, 2019 @2:00 PM
Robert Young obituary
Other lives: Psychotherapist and author of books on Darwin and the history of ideas
Kurt Jacobsen
01, Aug, 2019 @4:43 PM
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