Long before firearms took shape, early Chinese experimentation produced gunpowder and set off a military revolution. This episode traces how it spread, broke fortifications, rewired tactics, and ...

Gunpowder changed warfare slowly at first and then with overwhelming force. This episode traces its path from early experiments in Asia to the giant bombards that could smash medieval fortresses apart ...

The story that caught my attention was that the dolls were not made by a toy company, but were produced by a Soviet gunpowder ...

Editor in chief Nancy Shute discusses how science and armed conflict have been intertwined throughout history, from the Greeks in 400 B.C. to the use of tear gas in the protests across the United ...

AI is advancing faster than ever – reshaping power, warfare, and privacy. Kate Crawford warns the biggest decisions about its ...

Can a book about the history of disruptive innovation help us see if we are asking the right questions about AI?

There are military artifacts with stories behind them across the state, but few are as famous as the two Civil War-era cannons that, until 2023, when they were "temporarily" relocated, could be seen ...

Innovation is one of the most celebrated yet misunderstood ideas of our time. It is invoked in policy speeches, corporate strategy decks and university mission statements. But strip away the buzzword ...

In her latest column, Dr Jane Wilcock explains how angina can be triggered by the cold and relieved with GTN spray ...

The history of warfare stretches back thousands of years. One of the earliest recorded conflicts took place around 2700 B.C., ...

Robert Goddard is known as the father of modern rocketry, but at the time, many people mocked his ideas around space ...