We learn more when things get difficult. Over the past five years, we've lived through a period of tremendous growth and optimism in the tech sector. Record funding rounds, sky-high valuations, and ...

The history of science and technology links many disciplines and cultures: scientific, technological, humanistic and social. Smith’s program in the history of science and technology is designed to ...

Even as new technologies revolutionize everything from health care to media to warfare, it’s important to remember that our world runs primarily on products and technologies long in use — everything ...

When the A key is pressed on a QWERTY keyboard, the letter 'a' appears on the screen. When that key is pressed in a standard Chinese word-processing program, however, it triggers a dozen or so Chinese ...

Edited by Charles Singer, E. J. Holmyard and A. R. Hall; assisted by E. Jaffe, R. H. G. Thomson and J. M. Donaldson. Vol. 1: From Early Times to Fall of Ancient ...