Roman Emperor Septimus Severus dies, leaving the Roman Empire in the hands of his two quarrelsome sons, Caracalla and ...

Tycho is named for 16th-century Danish astronomer, nobleman, writer Tycho Brahe and his DIY ethic. Having been a graphic designer for over a decade, Hansen understands the intersection of humanity ...

Even famous scientists like Tycho Brahe, Robert Boyle, and Isaac Newton tried their hands at the fruitless endeavor we call alchemy. Materials science has, of course, come a long way. For the past ...

Thus imagine a stone falling to the ground. Do you conceive the earth, like Aristotle and Tycho Brahe, as fixed or, like Copernicus and Galileo, as moving? Try as you may, you cannot do both at once: ...

When atomic bombs struck Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, the blinding light and heat from the explosions left only shadows of ...

Discover the secrets of Renaissance period astronomers Kepler and Brahe in Prague, the stunning city of a hundred spires, and stargaze at the Stefanik Observatory. Discover the city of Stockholm's ...

Earlier this month the Mathematics Institute at Uppsala University hosted a conference called Categorification in Algebra and Topology, clearly a theme close to our collective heart. As yet there are ...

Aristotle and Plato – their names conjure up thoughts of stone busts showing serene elderly men with long curly beards. Perhaps these revered Greek philosophers really did look like that at some stage ...

One of the youngest supernova remnants in our galaxy, Cassiopeia A glows with the energy of a star’s final breath.