The English polymath Robert Hooke is known for his investigations into life too small for us to see. But his contributions to ...

"Spring has sprung"... all year round, for many centuries! Here's how important that one simple device has become for ...

Designed by Sir Christopher Wren and Robert Hooke, this stone column reaches a height of 202 feet, exactly 202 feet from the ...

An exhibition at Gressenhall Farm and Workhouse will explore microscopic worlds. The exhibition, titled Through the Microscope: Secrets of Norfolk’s Changing Landscape with Edible East, will run from ...

Jupiter, the giant of our solar system, is home to a variety of fascinating phenomena. Among these, the Great Red Spot (GRS) ...

This idea isn’t new—it goes back thousands of years. The Romans and Mesopotamians built arches that used compression to ...

Not Robert Pattinson. It’s not a leap to think that the 38-year-old actor with the bedroom eyes and the matinee-idol mug requested that things be even more silly, repulsive, and bizarre.

This is Pattinson at his best, holding his movie star charisma hostage in order to pursue loveable weirdos in all kinds of shades (see: Benny and Josh Safdie’s Good Time or Robert Eggers’s The ...

The UCC Chemical Society invites ChemSoc alumni to celebrate our 100 Year Anniversary in Cork County Cricket Club on March 6th at 7:30pm. This event will be a wonderful opportunity to catch up with ...

With more than 500 bridges crisscrossing the city of Philadelphia, they are an integral part of daily life. In a city defined ...

350 years old, Robert Hooke's Micrographia is a hidden treasure in Kew's library — one you may not expect to find there. Among the library’s botanical riches, there are a few items which are not ...

Robert Hooke FRS (; 18 July 1635 – 3 March 1703) was an English polymath active as a scientist, natural philosopher and architect, who is credited to be one of two scientists to discover ...