History
-
May 10, 1869: Golden Spike Unites Nation at Promontory Summit
PROMONTORY SUMMIT, Utah Territory, May 10 — The final spike was driven here today, completing the first transcontinental…
-
Dodge’s Legacy: The Engineer Who Shaped the Transcontinental Railroad
COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa, July 14 — A century after his death, the work of Grenville M. Dodge still…
-
How ENIAC’s 18,000 Vacuum Tubes Launched the Electronic Computing Age
PHILADELPHIA, July 11 — The Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer, known as ENIAC, was completed in 1945 at…
-
Alan Turing Defined Computation and Broke Nazi Codes
LONDON, July 11 — Against this backdrop of rapid advances in artificial intelligence, the intellectual foundations laid nearly…
-
Engineering the Impossible: How the Panama Canal Was Built
PANAMA CITY, July 10 — The Panama Canal stands as one of the most audacious and strategically consequential…
-
The Wright Brothers’ 1903 Flight and the Skies It Opened for Everyone
KITTY HAWK, North Carolina, July 10 — For communities across Asia that have watched aviation transform how families…
-
Central Pacific Carves 1,659-Foot Summit Tunnel Through Sierra Nevada
SACRAMENTO, July 10 — The black powder smoke has long since cleared from the Sierra Nevada, but the…
-
Vasco da Gama’s India Voyage Opened Spice Trade Route
LISBON, July 8 — It is 529 years to the day since Vasco da Gama departed Lisbon with…
-
Chinese Laborers Carried the Central Pacific Railroad Over the Sierra Nevada
BEIJING, July 8 — The story of the transcontinental railroad in the United States is often told as…
-
The Pacific Railroad Acts: Lincoln’s Gamble That Bound a Continent in Iron
WASHINGTON, July 8 — Against this backdrop of a sprawling nation still scarred by civil war, the United…
-
Marie Curie: From Warsaw exile to Nobel-winning scientist
PARIS, July 4 — Against the backdrop of a city that still bears the intellectual fingerprints of its…
-
Founding contradictions and historical stakes of 1776 examined
LONDON, July 4 — Against this backdrop of America’s 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, a webinar…
-
Boston heard the Declaration of Independence two weeks after the signing
PHILADELPHIA, July 4 — The first Fourth of July was not a day of celebration at all. Nobody…
-
Jefferson, Blackstone and the legal roots of the Declaration’s best-known sentence
WASHINGTON — Two hundred and fifty years after Thomas Jefferson put pen to parchment, the legal foundation of…
-
How the 1776 Viceroyalty of La Plata Redrew Spanish South America
BOGOTÁ, June 30 — On the ground in Colombia’s high plains, the year 1776 is not a story…
-
The Sentence That Forever Changed History
WASHINGTON, June 30 — Two hundred and fifty years ago today, the American experiment began with a single…
-
Reason Credits the American Long Rifle With Turning Key Revolutionary War Battles
WASHINGTON, June 28 — A declassified Pentagon filing has identified a single firearm as the weapon that turned…
-
Students’ Rumor Leads to Roman House Found Beneath Rome High School Gym
SPOLETO, Italy — The basketball games will stop. That much is certain. What happens next at Liceo Classico…
-
Panama Canal Locks: Engineering the Water Elevator Over the Isthmus
PANAMA CITY, July 15 — The Panama Canal is one of those feats of engineering that seems almost…
-
Gagarin’s 108 Minutes: The Flight That Reshaped the Cold War
MOSCOW, July 15 — On the ground at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, the ghosts of the Space Race still…
-
How a Telegraph Treaty in 1865 Became Today’s ITU
GENEVA, July 16 — The International Telecommunication Union, a specialised agency of the United Nations, stands as the…
-
Rudolf Diesel’s 1892 Patent Revolutionized Engineering
AUGSBURG, July 6 — The diesel engine turned over a century old this week, and the mechanics of…
-
FDR’s New Deal: Hoover Dam, TVA Transform America’s Rivers
WASHINGTON, July 8 — The strategic transformation of the American landscape during the Great Depression remains one of…
-
Norway 1905: Workers Against War, a Kingdom by Ballot
The referendum in Norway, autumn 1905, produced a margin so vast it almost reads as a clerical error.…
Most read
-
Faraday Factory HTS tape and Zenno Almighty Magnet launch to space
-
Japan Meteorological Agency Reviews Early Warning System After False 9.9 Quake Alert
-
Japan’s H3 Rocket Evolves Into a Versatile Workhorse for Deep Space Exploration
-
SpaceX Pursues Ambitious Projects After Recent Launch Success
-
Musk Disputes NASA’s 22-Launch Estimate for Artemis IV Moon Landing
-
Researchers Launch ShakeOut Scenario 2.0 to Update Southern California Earthquake Model
-
Japan Trench Plate Boundary Re-locks 15 Years After 2011 Quake, Study Finds
-
Archaeologist Uncovers Intact 1906 Basement Frozen Under San Francisco Streets
-
How Seismic Circuit Breakers Use Physics to Stop Earthquake Fires Before They Start
-
How the Nankai Trough Earthquake Evaluation Committee Tracks Japan’s Megaquake Threat
-
Indonesia pushes 70% state share of mining permits, reshaping contracts with foreign giants
-
How Artisanal Gold Mining Fuels Global Markets and Local Crises
-
Project InnerSpace Launches Abundance Energy Group to Unlock Oil Major Capital for Geothermal
-
How U.S. Mining Faces a Workforce Crisis While Critical Mineral Demand Soars
-
How Williams Companies Capitalizes on Natural Gas Demand Fueled by AI Growth
-
United Launch Alliance Successfully Returns Vulcan Centaur to Flight After Nine-Month Grounding
-
How NASA Is Adapting Its Artemis Timeline as SpaceX Ramps Up Starship
-
SpaceX Starship Flight 15 attempts first full rocket recovery in history
-
Caltech’s ASTRA robot autonomously assembles space antenna truss for first time
-
Project Kuiper Faces Major Logistical Test as Amazon Scaled Its Satellite Internet Constellation
-
Hyaloclastite Fracturing on Liliʻuokalani Ridge Reveals Pacific Plate Volcanic Patterns
-
Epstein-Barr Virus Confirmed as Leading Cause of Multiple Sclerosis
-
Invisible Massive Object in Distant Star System Challenges Dark Matter Theories
-
How Newly Discovered Psilocybin Mushrooms Combine Psychedelics and Deadly Toxins
-
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei Claims AI Will Eradicate Major Diseases Within a Decade