Science and technology

British nurse Florence Nightingale (1820–1910), aka the 'Lady with the lamp', makes her rounds during the Crimean War. (Photo by Illustrated London News/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

The lady with the stats: how Florence Nightingale’s nursing by numbers is still influencing today’s healthcare

The first controlled, powered and sustained human flight on 17 December 1903 by the Wright Brothers. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

17 December 1903: the day the Wright Brothers flew into history

German-born physicist Albert Einstein.

5 things you (probably) didn’t know about Albert Einstein

Einstein on the run

Second World War

Einstein on the run: when the brilliant scientist fled to England

A contemporary portrait of scientist Ada Lovelace

My history hero Konnie Huq chooses Ada Lovelace (1815–52)

Photo of a gramophone

Q&A Who do we say 'put a sock in it'?

Peter Mayhew, Harrison Ford, Alec Guinness and Mark Hamill, on-set of the film Star Wars

Star Wars: why did the film make history?

Yuri Gagarin before the first space flight, 12 April 1961. (Credit: RIA Novosti)

In pictures: Soviet cosmonauts and the birth of the space age

Ada Lovelace

Ada Lovelace: a visionary of computing

On 20 July 1969, Lunar Module 'Eagle' touched down gently on the Sea of Tranquility on the moon. (Photo by NASA/Newsmakers via Getty Images)

From ‘moon-germs’ to motion sickness: health and safety on NASA’s 1969 lunar landing mission

A photo which was believed to be of the Loch Ness Monster

The quest for the Loch Ness Monster

George Westinghouse, Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla

Edison, Westinghouse and Tesla: the history behind The Current War

The ‘Surgeon’s Photo’, taken in 1934, which claimed to depict the Loch Ness Monster. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

5 facts about the Loch Ness Monster

A 15th-century map of the world illustrating a Latin edition of Ptolemy's the 'Geography'. (Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

General prehistory

12 alternative giant leaps for mankind – from carnivorism to Magna Carta

(Image courtesy of NASA)

NASA’s unknown Welsh hero: the story of Tecwyn Roberts