Gabriel Lippmann received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1908 for an interference-based method of colour photography that was never commercially successful. Margaret Harris finds out why ...

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He successfully brought five plants back to France, where one was planted in the royal gardens of Versailles, among the rest ...

Scientists had been exploring the development of television since the 1850s, but Baird, working with salvaged bicycle lamps, scrap wood, and biscuit tins, brought the concept to life ...

ICRAR astronomers find early Universe was warm before stars formed, ruling out a cold start to cosmic dawn using decade-long ...

More than a century after its invention, illustrators still use a lit bulb to symbolize a great idea. Credit typically goes ...

For over 100 years, physicists argued over how much momentum light carries in materials like glass or water, popularly known ...

While William Rowan Hamilton isn’t a household name like, say, Einstein or Hawking, he might have been. It turns out the ...

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While excavating a massive Roman cemetery in the Netherlands, archaeologists discovered an unusual oil lamp that may depict the ancient god of wine. The "filling hole," where oil would have been ...