All that can really be said is that at some indeterminate point in the very distant past, for reasons unknown, there came the moment known to science as t = 0.
Advertising was already a well-established phenomenon by the turn of the twentieth century. Newspapers had begun carrying ads as far back as the early 1700s, and magazines soon followed. (Benjamin Fra...
1905. In that year, Einstein published three papers that revolutionized physics. In the same year he was turned down for two teaching jobs.
Последните думи на генерал Седжуик били: Казвам ти, човече, не биха могли да уцелят и бизон от такова разс....
You have also been extremely – make that miraculously – fortunate in your personal ancestry. Consider the fact that for 3.8 billion years, a period of time older than the Earth’s mountains and rivers...
Wondering how many tens of thousands of days have passed since BBC One last showed a program that anyone not on medication would want to watch.
We may be the living universe’s supreme achievement and its worst nightmare simultaneously. Because
We can’t see even into the Oort cloud, so we don’t actually know that it is there. Its existence is probable but entirely hypothetical.1 About
We are here only because of timely extraterrestrial bangs and other random flukes.
Was a book by Arthur Raistrick called Quakers in Science and Industry and I glanced through it for a few minutes, then carried it to a nearby chair and sat reading for about half an hour, so unexpecte...
Very should be made to pay its way in sentences. Too often it is used where it adds nothing to sense (‘It was a very tragic death’), or is inserted in a futile effort to prop up a weak word that would...
Transits of Venus, as they are known, are an irregular occurrence. They come in pairs eight years apart, but then are absent for a century or more,
There is only one place, an inconspicuous outpost of the Milky Way called the Earth, that will sustain you, and even it can be pretty grudging. From
The world hate you? Most of them you will never even meet, and yet they really don’t like you at all. All the people who write software at Microsoft hate you, and so do most of the people who answer p...
The starling, which was brought to America by one Eugene Schieffelin, a wealthy German emigrant who had the odd, and in the case of starlings regrettable, idea that he should introduce to the American...
The only English-language publication on offer was the weekend edition of USA Today, a publication that always puts me in mind of a newspaper we used to get in grade school called My Weekly Reader. I...
Radiocarbon dating works only for objects up to forty thousand or so years old. Curiously,
Personal, personally. When it is necessary to emphasize that a person is acting on his own rather than as a spokesman or that he is addressing people individually rather than collectively, personal an...
Ocean vents harbour some of the most extraordinary life on the planet.
Ocean floors everywhere were so comparatively youthful. None had ever been found to be older than about 175 million years, which was a puzzle because continental rocks were often billions of years old...