On April 15, 1874, a group of some 30 painters, many rejected by the jury of the official Paris Salon, were invited by the photographer Nadar to showcase their works in his former Paris studio.

The road in Paris named after French physicist Hippolyte Fizeau, as drawn by an artist in 1896. (Credit: F Séguin, Dessinateur. Musée Carnavalet, Histoire de Paris. D.10405) An 1851 experiment in ...

If we want to click a picture of the sun, we pick up a camera or a smartphone and snap it in all its magnificence. While it is as easy as that currently, capturing the sun was no easy feat even a ...

Adam Savage explores two spectacular examples of profound scientific discoveries stemming from simple, creative methods that anyone could have replicated: how Eratosthenes calculated the Earth's ...