Exploring Science and Space

From the inventor of the toilet to what's inside of a black hole

Lightbulb moments 💡

A-ha moments that made life what it is today

11 Inventions that Changed the World

From arrowheads to the jet plane

How The Cheeseburger Almost Didn't Happen

The everyday inventions people never thought would catch on

Do you know who invented...

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The Telephone

Monopoly

Basketball

The TV

The Internet

Who Really Invented The Light Bulb? And Other Myths Debunked

Origin stories 👩‍🔬

Where everyday inventions came from

Who invented the toilet?

Take a seat and find out

Who invented football?

Get possession of the facts

Who invented emoji?

The epic rise of the eggplant

Who invented mathematics?

It's all summed up here

Who invented 3D printing?

And will it really trigger a revolution?

Who invented the computer?

Here’s the story, bit by bit

Who invented the sewing machine?

Here’s the story, all sewn up

Who invented the fridge?

Put everything on ice and find out

Who invented paper?

The strange and ancient story unfolds

Who invented the toothbrush?

Brush up on the truth

Who invented spectacles?

A long-sighted look back in time

Who invented the compass?

Navigate the truth behind the needle

Who invented zero?

The notable story of nothing

Who invented the battery?

Power through the story of portable energy

Who invented Braille?

The touchy-feely story of a new language

Who invented kindergarten?

The origins of the new school

Who invented the espresso machine?

Wake up and smell the coffee

Who invented the internet?

Log onto humanity’s big invention story

The Hollywood Star Who Helped Invent Wi-Fi

A remarkable life, a remarkable invention

Great minds 🧠

Click to discover how these people changed the world

Nikola Tesla

Albert Einstein

Marie Curie

Charles Darwin

Ada Lovelace

A penguin is loose in the museum...

The Flightless Bird Explores the History of Flight

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Follow the penguin on a tour of the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum

Take To The Skies

Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum, United States

Go 100m Under The Ground

CERN, Switzerland

See the Top-Secret Home of the Codebreakers

Bletchley Park, UK

Feel Like a Giant Next to Tiny Train Models

Spanish Railways Foundation, Spain

Out-of-this world stories of space

To infinity, and beyond

9 Out-of-This-World Photos From Space

Space Exploration

NASA's 10 Most-Requested Images

NASA Senior Photo Researcher Connie Moore on her 30 years fulfilling photo requests

Space Exploration

A Virtual Tour of the Hubble's Control Center

Learn about this amazing orbiting spacecraft,

Space Exploration

Illuminating the Invisible: NASA's Scientific Visualisation Studio

Animations and videos that showcase NASA's research and missions

Space Exploration

What Did Space Shuttle Discovery Achieve?

A closer look at the champion of the Space Shuttle Fleet

Space Exploration

Toys in Space

From Buzz Lightyear to Smokey the Bear, these toys made the ultimate trip outside our atmosphere

Space Exploration

A 360-Degree Journey through the Orion Nebula

Delve into this immersive tour, which uses images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope

More space stories

Now go there yourself

Get your space boots on and explore the International Space Station

10 Out-Of-This-World Facts About the International Space Station

Learn a little more about this home in the stars

Are You Ready To Defy Gravity?

Take a virtual tour of the ISS with street view

Big concepts, explained

How Do We Know the Universe is Expanding?

This is gonna be big

How Do We Know Black Holes Exist?

Dive down a discovery rabbithole

How Do We Know the Earth is Round?

Facts to counter flatness

Go back to the beginning

In collaboration with CERN and narrated by Tilda Swinton

The Big Bang in AR

Go back to where it all began in augmented reality

Get inspired...

EDITORIAL FEATURE

It's time to remember the forgotten women scientists of history

Broadly Editor Zing Tsjeng on filling in the gaps of history

The prejudice-fighting physicist

The inspiring story of Chien-Shiung Wu

Doctor, dancer, NASA astronaut

How Mae C. Jemison overcame the odds to go to space

The forgotten first programmer

How programming pioneer Ada Lovelace was ahead of her time

Rebel with a cause

Sarah E. Goode: the first African-American woman to get a patent

The struggle to find radioactive polonium

How Marie Curie's legacy radiates through history

Could you be the next Marie Curie?🔬

Discover what it's like to be an inventor

Who Are The Young Scientists of the Future?

From banana skins to safe socks: Google Science Fair winners share their wisdom

What Does It Take To Be An Inventor?

Two inventors on how they approach their work

Meet the scientists with superpowers🦸

Move over Batman

5 British scientists on the tech of tomorrow

Creating superpowers with science

Scientific Superpowers: Dr Gadget

Scientific Superpowers: The Shapeshifter

Scientific Superpowers: The Sensational Extra Sense

Scientific Superpowers: Channelling the Elements

Scientific Superpowers: Extraordinary X-Ray

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