The history of science and technology links many disciplines and cultures: scientific, technological, humanistic and social. Smith’s program in the history of science and technology is designed to ...

We learn more when things get difficult. Over the past five years, we've lived through a period of tremendous growth and optimism in the tech sector. Record funding rounds, sky-high valuations, and ...

Generative AI, the transformative technology of the moment, exploded onto the scene with the arrival in late 2022 of ChatGPT, an AI-powered chatbox developed by the company OpenAI. After only five ...

Starting around 3,000 years ago, a wave of innovation began to sweep through human societies around the globe. For the next millennium the continued emergence of new technologies had a dramatic effect ...

If you were, for whatever macabre reason, seeking the most catastrophic moment in the history of humankind, you might well settle on this: About 10,000 years ago, as people first began to domesticate ...

Meghan is an associate editor with EdTech. She enjoys coffee, cats and science fiction TV. Universities are often at the forefront of history, using innovative technology to make strides on everything ...

What reporters witnessed in a New York City auditorium on April 7, 1927 was a fundamentally startling notion: seeing someone speak—from hundreds of miles away—in real time. When then-Commerce ...

Like many cultural holidays Indigenous Peoples' Day has become more than a simple holiday with bank closures; it's a reclamation of identity, culture and justice. What are the best ways Indigenous ...

For a lot of kids, history class can be boring. That’s usually because a strong focus on things that happened in the past can be hard to relate to — especially as an adolescent. To energize students ...

Editor’s note: This story appeared in the October 2021 edition of The Daily Universe Magazine. Gone are the days of using antique family history techniques to fill out a family tree as new technology ...

Meta Platforms Inc.’s Mark Zuckerberg, months into building one of the priciest teams in technology history, is getting ...