There are many museums of natural history, of archaeology, of decorative and fine arts. There are outdoor museums that show ...

Koch’s bacillus – the cause of tuberculosis – was identified in 1882, earning the microbiologist Robert Koch the Nobel prize ...

As in Sally Rooney’s previous novels, the main characters in Intermezzo fall in love quickly, tidily and passionately. They meet, their outfits are described, they exchange clipped dialogue and are ...

Craig Brown’s royal doorstopper is less about the life of Elizabeth II than about her effect on other people, particularly on the British, who were her subjects until 1981 and afterwards sometimes ...

In the early 2000s I enrolled in a master’s course in computer science. Among my fellow students it was common to share jokes about bugs and bytes, or about the 10 types of people in the world – those ...

It is misleading to include sculpture in a list of Baudelaire’s dislikes, as Seth Whidden does in his review of the Œuvres complètes (September 6). This commonly held prejudice is based on his Salon ...

The relationship between the world of books and the internet has always been more than a little tricky. It took another turn – a serious downturn, many would say – last week. On September 4 the US ...

Uranium is among the heaviest naturally occurring elements in the periodic table, and as the source material for the atomic bomb and nuclear power, its importance in human affairs is clear. Many ...

Sir,—Every nursery will endorse the praise bestowed upon the books of Beatrix Potter. It is all the more exasperating, therefore, that for the last two or three years not one has been obtainable.

It is not yet dawn, and Clover Stroud is on the Ridgeway in Oxfordshire, checking the horizon, as she likes to, “just quickly, for giants … a giant would be able to step across the whole plain in one ...