Gunpowder changed warfare slowly at first and then with overwhelming force. This episode traces its path from early ...

Editor in chief Nancy Shute discusses how science and armed conflict have been intertwined throughout history, from the ...

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

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

“USA250: The Story of the World’s Greatest Economy” is a yearlong WSJ series examining America’s first 250 years. Read more about it from Editor in Chief Emma Tucker. Technology and entertainment in ...

BREAKING NEWS. AND WE’RE FOLLOWING BREAKING NEWS FROM HARFORD COUNTY RIGHT NOW. TWO PEOPLE FELL INTO THE GUNPOWDER RIVER IN JOPPATOWNE SKYLAB IN BALTIMORE’S ONLY NEWS HELICOPTER WAS OVER THE SCENE ...

You've probably found gunpowder clumps in Grounded 2 without realizing what they were before the Toxic Tangle update. This fairly rare resource comes from buster-caps scattered throughout the park, ...

The breakthrough is often credited to Scottish inventor John Logie Baird—but the real history is far more complicated and collaborative. John Logie Baird with his transmitting station on March 19, ...

Civilisations name their ages after materials. In school, we learn about the Stone Age, the Bronze Age – and we are currently in a silicon age characterised by computers and phones. What might define ...

While working as an engineer at Tesla, Niccolo Cymbalist never planned to start a business. But he’d been considering an idea for new technology—an autonomous, wind-powered cargo ship. Then, while on ...

In 2005, physicists David Frame and Myles Allen were on their way to a scientific conference in Exeter, UK, and had been, in Frame’s words, “fiddling about” with a climate model to prepare for their ...