Sparks Commentary

In 1993, the original “Jurassic Park” film brought chaos theory to a wide audience. In that movie, the character of  Ian Malcolm  predicts...

When the  first atomic bombs went off in 1945 , people witnessed the awesome power of the atom . It was so small that even microscopes fail...

We tend to associate the story of electricity with  Thomas Edison inventing the light bulb . Alternatively, we tend to associate it with  Be...

The name of Albert Einstein has become synonymous with genius. More than any other person, he is seen as the quintessential smart guy, and n...

There have been some massive advances in medical science since the  Renaissance . Medical science goes back at least as far as the Ancient G...

It’s quite an achievement when you can make an audiobook about chemistry that is understandable for someone like me. Chemistry was literally...

People have been curious about the natural world for as long as human beings have existed. The scientific impulse began very early in our hi...

The medieval period is often seen as “backwards” today – and to some extent, this really is true. But this era also had some great science, ...

“If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.” – Isaac Newton, in a letter to Robert Hooke on 5 February 1675 Sir Is...

The “Age of Exploration” is today known for shameless imperialism, but it also saw many advances in our scientific understanding of the ear...

The battle over the Sun-centered universe was as much political as it was scientific. During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries , a th...

What is science, and how does it work? Are scientific theories certain, or can they change with the evidence? These are the kinds of questio...