Russell has a PhD in the history of medicine, violence, and colonialism. His research has explored topics including ethics, science governance, and medical involvement in violent contexts. Russell has ...

When an inventor has a unit of measurement named after him, it's clear his work had more than a small impact on scientific and industrial progress. So it was for James Watt, whose Watt engine is often ...

Britain's transition from water power to coal-based steam power set the stage for the 19th century Industrial Revolution, which transformed much of Europe and North America into predominantly urban ...

George Mason University economist Mark Koyama draws parallels between the ancient Roman world and the world of nearly a millennium later. He portrays Rome as a market economy recognizable to Adam ...

Scientific American is part of Springer Nature, which owns or has commercial relations with thousands of scientific publications (many of them can be found at www ...

LONDON, June 9 (Reuters Breakingviews) - There is much excited chatter that automation will unleash a Fourth Industrial Revolution, building on earlier upheavals caused by the arrival of steam power, ...

Source: Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay. Human history, in many instances, is punctuated by technological revolutions that have fundamentally altered the trajectory of civilization. From the steam ...

With the Industrial Revolution, which began in Britain in the late 18th century, came the first wave of technology to transform the economic system. In the centuries that followed were further ...