Archaeologists found an 800-ton Dutch merchant vessel lost in 1857 off the coast of South Australia, offering a rare look ...

There was no such thing as a science of chemistry in the time of ... Limited as chemical knowledge was when the nineteenth century opened, there were, however, certain men at work, who had adopted ...

Organized by the university's Department of the History of Science, the exhibition features original objects from the early 19th century epitomizing the cutting-edge science of the time, including ...

Not all lives were seen as worthy of these men's care, however. Men of science and medicine may have fostered life for many, but they also let others die. In "Becoming Object," I track how they ...

The idea that science and religion are at war with one another is actually fairly recent. It really only arose in the last third of the nineteenth century, after the publication of Darwin's book ...

ANSTO scientists from the Australian Center for Neutron Scattering were members of an interdisciplinary team led by the ...

By the mid-19th century, the push for standardization had ... And while by today's standards, the SI may seem like a relic of old-school science bureaucracy, it's anything but.

For those physicians that did try the operation, outcomes were generally not promising—until the end of the nineteenth century a patient under-going a caesarean section faced almost certain death.

The exhibition’s organizer, Claire Perry, an independent curator, writes that she was interested in “the nineteenth century’s spirit of inquiry through science and technology, the arts ...