Hardly remembered today, Sir Charles Wheatstone was a scientific pioneer who played a crucial role in the development of telegraphy, 3D imaging and musical instrument design. Written by Nick Smith. As ...

Things seem to have quietened down a bit following last month’s announcement by astronomers in the BICEP2 collaboration that they had obtained the first evidence of cosmic inflation – the period of ...

AS was mentioned briefly last week, p. 623, on October 19, Sir charles Sherrington, president of the Royal Society, unveiled at Gloucester a bronze memorial tablet to Sir Charles Wheatstone, who was ...

Here is the solution to last month's image, which marks the end of our series featuring apparatus of historical interest from London's Science Museum. Which physicist invented this teaching aid, to ...

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