The grid references for location, latitude and longitude require basically two inputs: the sun’s position and exact time. As you can imagine, latitude was mastered first, but creating ...

Every week of new titles surprises with some surprising link (five books that reference cucumbers!) (eight books about the ...

A reluctant celebrity who coined the term “radioactivity”, she transformed the perception of women in science.

In a new biography, Dava Sobel focuses not just on the legendary physicist and chemist, but on the 45 women who worked in her ...

You ever looked at Oklahoma and thought, huh? What’s up with that long thin bit sitting on top of Texas like that? Or ...

To do that, I’ll use what’s called latitude and longitude.Lines of latitude run around the Earth like imaginary hoops and have numbers to show how many degrees north or south they are from the ...

As it navigates a machinists strike, the company had announced last week that it would not be going to the prominent industry ...

Longitude 77, the first Indian single malt from Pernod Ricard India, was launched in Punjab, in keeping with the brand's ...

On Saturday, October 26, prepare to experience Australia’s largest LGBTQIA+ Halloween party. A haunting takeover of Liberty Hall will go from dusk till dawn (6pm–2am), so get ready for a night full of ...

The £8m Longitude Prize has been won after a decade-long competition to find new tools to tackle the scourge of superbugs. It has been awarded for a test that rapidly detects whether an infection ...

AI glasses that help people living with dementia navigate their environment and a smartwatch that learns daily routines to ...