#34 Science in History 10th February 1840 On this day in 1840, Queen Victoria married her cousin, Prince Albert of Saxe Coburg-Gotha....

#33 Science in History 6th February 1886 On this day in 1886, the element germanium is discovered. In 1886, a German chemist, Clemens...

#32 Science in History 05 February 1974 Today in 1974, Mariner 10 sends back information about Venus’s cloud cover. Mariner 10 was...

#31 Science in History 04 February 1600 On this day, in 1600, the German astronomer and mathematician Johannes Kepler arrived in Prague...

#30 Science in History 02 February 1046 On this day, in 1046, monks record the onset of a cold snap that may have heralded the onset of a...

#27 Science in History 26 January 1905 On this day in 1905, a diamond of exceptional size and quality was discovered in the Transvaal,...

#26 Science in History 25 January 1798 On this day in 1798, Count Rumford, presented his new idea about heat. Count Rumford, AKA Sir...

#25 Science in History 23 January 1896 On this day in January 1896, Röntgen made the first public presentation, and demonstration, of...

#24 Science in History 21 January 1984 Today in 1984, Britain's first test-tube triplets made headlines. The triplets were delivered, by...

#23 Science in History 19 January 1903 On this day in 1903, history was made as King Edward VII of England and President Theodore...

#22 Science in History 16 January 1980 On this day in 1980, a team of scientists at a Boston-based research facility announced a major...

#21 Science in History 14 January 1878 Today in 1878, Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, demonstrated his invention to...

#20 Science in History 13 January 1978 On this day in 1978, NASA made history by selecting six women as their first female astronaut...

#18 Science in History 09 January 1816 On this day in 1816, the Davy safety lamp was trialled at Hebburn Colliery in North-East England....

#17 Science in History 08 January 1938 On this day in 1938, the journal Nature publishes two articles describing the superfluidity of...

#16 Science in History 07 January 1939 On this day in 1939, French scientist Marguerite Perey reveals, in an entry made in her notebook,...

#15 Science in History 06 January 2000 On this day in 2000, the Pyrenean ibex became the first mammal species to go extinct due to human...

Volcanoes have the power to turn our world upside down. From Krakatoa in 1883 to Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD, some of the most devastating...

#15 Science in History December 28th, 1879 The Tay Bridge Disaster was a devastating event that caused the collapse of the Tay Rail...

#12 Science in History 25 December 1758 Astronomer Johann Georg Palitzsch spots the comet's return On Christmas Day 1758, Johann Georg...