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History of science

Strokes of life

Strokes of life

A German illustrator and naturalist laid the foundation for modern entomology.
Sky full of stars

Sky full of stars

Tycho Brahe spotted celestial bodies before the advent of telescopes.  
Scalpels and sketches

Scalpels and sketches

Spanish anatomist Santiago Ramón y Cajal made fundamental discoveries in neuroscience.
End of an epoch

End of an epoch

Remembering the nation-building contributions of three Indian science patriarchs.
The minister and the mouse

The minister and the mouse

In the late 1700s, a radical English thinker discovered the presence of oxygen in the air.
'AI lacks a conceptual grasp'

'AI lacks a conceptual grasp'

Mathematician Shing-Tung Yau on the state of maths and physics research.
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