When I first heard my daughter was going to take abacus lessons after school, I didn’t really know what to make of it. I never touched one myself and just considered it one of those obsolete tools of ...

A sextant is the antique version of a GPS. And in his basement workshop, Ridge White is one of the few people in the world still servicing and repairing the instruments. “Sarah,” a replica of an ...

When Physicist K. G. Jansky of Bell laboratories discovered in 1932 that he could pick up radio waves from objects in space, he founded the exciting science of radio astronomy. As the sailors of ...

Time may be up for analogue clocks as more and more students are unable to read them, resulting in many UK schools replacing them with digital clocks. The change comes due to GCSE and A-Level students ...

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The demolition of a landmark Cork city pub to make way for what will be one of the country’s tallest residential buildings has prompted calls for a new debate about protecting the city’s heritage.

Humans started counting tens of thousands of years ago, but when did they begin figuring out advanced arithmetic, algebra and even calculus? When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

In this episode of Silk Road Adventures, we discover how Ulugh Beg, a 15th-century ruler and scholar, transformed Samarkand into a centre of astronomical excellence, leaving a legacy that continues to ...

India celebrates National Mathematics Day on December 22, marking the birth anniversary of the great mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan. Initiated in 2012 by then-Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, the day ...

ChatGPT has already wreaked havoc on classrooms and changed how teachers approach writing homework, since OpenAI publicly launched the generative AI chatbot in late 2022. School administrators rushed ...

The council's deputy chief executive, Brian Geaney, said that the proposal 'will be the catalyst to further unleash the potential of the docklands area' The plan, if greenlit, will see a 24-storey ...