Isaac Newton investigating light

Science and technology

Workers lower the bodywork of a Standard Vanguard car onto its chassis in a factory

Britain’s motor city: how Coventry's car industry roared to greatness – then went into reverse.

Thomas Crapper started a plumbing business in Chelsea in 1861 and pioneered some of the most revolutionary designs of sanitary engineering in the 19th century – but he didn't 'invent' the toilet

The legend of Thomas Crapper, the man who didn't invent the toilet

Scientists Frederic Joliot-Curie and his wife, Irene, at work in their Paris laboratory in December 1932. The couple were among a wide-ranging group of scientists whose work paved the way for the atomic bomb. (Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)

Hiroshima: the race to the atomic bomb.

Representations of digits from the ninth century, 11th century and the present day

Digital revolution: the evolution of Hindu-Arabic numerals

Chernobyl nuclear power plant a few weeks after the disaster

What was the Chernobyl Disaster?

George Westinghouse, Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla

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

The history and mystery of UFOs.

Joseph Bazalgette, a civil engineer who planned a groundbreaking new drainage system to serve London

Joseph Bazalgette: how the man who transformed London paved the way for your loo

UFO history10 top sightings and a timeline

A UFO photographed in New Mexico by a government employee. The image was released by the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization after careful study. It is unknown what the image shows.(Photo by Getty Images)

How UFOs conquered the world – without firing a shot.

An aerial view of Tahiti

Jeanne Baret: the first known woman to circumnavigate the globe.

Alan Turing

Second World War

Your guide to Alan Turing: the man, the enigma

The rise and fall of Britain’s motor city.

In their own words: the team behind Apollo 11 describe the 1969 mission to the Moon.

Sending the first man into space.

Da Vinci's sketch 'The Vitruvian Man'. Da Vinci's talents ranged from anatomy to military engineering, and many of his innovations were not explored further for several centuries. (Photo by: Photo12/UIG via Getty Images)

Your guide to Leonardo da Vinci: his life, inventions and milestones in his career

Ammonite and the real fossil hunter Mary Anning.

Mary Anning (Kate Winslet) and Charlotte Murchison (Saoirse Ronan) in Francis Lee's new film 'Ammonite'. (Photo courtesy of Lionsgate UK / See-Saw Films)

The real history behind Ammonite

Science is helping to reveal new information about life in the Viking Age

Vikings under the microscope: what can science tell us about Viking life?.

Professor Stephen Hawking in his office at the University of Cambridge, 2003

History heroBobby Seagull chooses Stephen Hawking (1942–2018).

Mary Anning was an extremely prolific fossil hunter

Mary Anning: the woman who hunted dinosaurs

Spitfires under construction at the Vickers Supermarine works in Southampton, around 1940

The difficult birth of the Spitfire – and how the WW2 fighter almost missed the battle of Britain.

The space race: everything you wanted to know

The space race: everything you wanted to know.

How oceans shaped human civilisation.

Edward Jenner performs a vaccination, in an 1802 cartoon that lampoons the notion that being vaccinated will turn you into a cow

The race for a cure: how we found vaccines for 4 of history's most dangerous diseases.

Charles Darwin and the Beagle: how the voyage transformed our understanding of the world

History heroAndrew Marr chooses Charles Darwin (1809–82).

George Washington Carver in a laboratory

History heroGillian Burke chooses George Washington Carver (c1864–1943).

Alfred Nobel (Bettmann/Getty Images)

The history of the Nobel Prizes

Charles Darwin

Charles Darwin vs God: did the 'Origin of Species' cause a clash between church and science?