11 Times Sci-Fi Novels Actually Inspired Real-Life Inventions, Like The ... But quite a few of the science nerds who grew up to create our modern day tech read actual science fiction books to get ...

This August, the SciFri Book Club is reading The Invention of Nature: Alexander Von Humboldt’s New World by Andrea Wulf. Alexander von Humboldt, the 19th century German naturalist and polymath, ...

Thanks to not only technology, but also science fiction, we have these everyday inventions. Here's the sci-fi concepts that inspired them. Human technology isn’t as far removed from science fiction as ...

The 21st century has brought us some of the most mind-boggling innovations, many of which were once imagined only in science fiction. From flying cars and virtual assistants to artificial intelligence ...

From picture books to history tomes, here are 10 books about zippers – an invention we couldn't get along without. 4. '100 Greatest Science Inventions of All Time,' by Kendall Haven ...

Last month, I asked you how to handle the ever-growing pile of science books I receive ... Book (P)review #1: Life Ascending, The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution. By Carl Zimmer.

Machines, inventions and ‘good cities’: a pick of science and tech books Published: December 13, 2021 9:22am EST Natasha Joseph , The Conversation , Abiodun Egbetokun , Christa Kuljian ...

The Invention of Nature by Andrea Wulf is a thrilling adventure story as much as a science book about a polymath who had an extraordinary impact on our contemporary understanding of nature.

In 1913, he started The Electrical Experimenter, which would become known as Science and Invention in the 1920s. And in 1919 he founded Radio News, with Television News launched in 1928, ...

Her next book, “The Barbarous Feast: Eating, Migrating and Writing in the 18th-Century World,” is forthcoming. WONDERWORKS The Twenty-Five Most Powerful Inventions in the History of Literature ...