Without this brilliant German chemist, your Christmas tree wouldn’t have been the same

How the innovation of 19th century chemist, Baron von Liebig, led to the first fertilizer, gravy, and mirrored Christmas baubles.

Mark Lorch, The Conversation

· Dec 22, 2021 · 09:30 pm

The science of resurrecting the ‘dead’ has a creepy history

Resuscitative efforts in the past centuries were understood to require the stimulation of the body back into mechanical action.

Caitjan Gainty, The Conversation

· Nov 15, 2021 · 11:30 pm

How flaming red sunsets led an amateur scientist in Hawaii to discover jet streams

Sereno Edwards Bishop’s discoveries ultimately yielded information that is used today to forecast weather over extended periods.

Kevin Hamilton, The Conversation

· Sep 21, 2021 · 11:30 pm

Doctors started measuring body temperature of patients quite recently

A member of Galileo’s Venetian circle of friends was the first to apply thermometer to medicine.

Teresa Hollerbach, The Conversation

· Mar 29, 2021 · 07:30 pm

350 years after its discovery, the vital element phosphorus is running out

An alchemist looking for gold discovered Element 15 in a bucket of human urine.

Petr Kilian, The Conversation

· Jan 14, 2019 · 11:30 pm

Why Thomas Edison’s legacy is being questioned – and why that’s a lesson for America

One of America's favourite sons is slowly losing his reputation, and he might just deserve it.

Iwan Morus, The Conversation

· Jul 14, 2018 · 09:30 pm

A tale of ‘trons’: The suffix that tells the story of modern science

Defeated it might be, but like victory, ‘tron’ has many fathers.

David Munns

· Oct 24, 2017 · 11:30 pm

How Marie Curie helped save lives during World War I with her mobile X-ray machines

Though known more as a scientist, the multi-faceted Marie Curie was also a humanitarian.

Timothy J. Jorgensen, The Conversation

· Oct 19, 2017 · 09:30 pm

Why India’s theoretical physicists owe a lot to Alladi Ramakrishnan’s drawing room in Madras

The Institute of Mathematical Sciences was a dream that began to be realised when Nobel Laureate Niels Bohr visited Ekamra Nivas.

Vijaysree Venkatraman

· Oct 03, 2017 · 11:30 am

Video: How a total solar eclipse over India in 1868 led to the discovery of Helium

A French scientist came all the way to Guntur to witness the astronomical phenomenon.

Ramakrishnan M

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Sujit Lad

· Aug 22, 2017 · 09:00 am

How a Madras scientist won the global race in the ’50s to crack the structure of collagen

GNR, who was up against Goliaths from the West, never got any credit for his contribution.

Vijaysree Venkatraman

· May 09, 2017 · 11:30 am

Watch: The humble rubber band has a very curious history (and that's not stretching things too far)

For many years, there was just rubber. No bands.

Scroll Staff

· Apr 11, 2017 · 01:00 pm