IELTS Reading

Aphantasia: A life without mental images Most people can readily conjure images inside their head – known as their mind’s eye. But this year scientists have […]

Making Time for Science Chronobiology might sound a little futuristic – like something from a science fiction novel, perhaps – but it’s actually a field of […]

ANT INTELLIGENCE When we think of intelligent members of the animal kingdom, the creatures that spring immediately to mind are apes and monkeys. But in fact […]

Pulling Strings to Build Pyramids The pyramids of Egypt were built more than three thousand years ago, and no one knows how. The conventional picture is […]

A CHRONICLE OF TIMEKEEPING A According to archaeological evidence, at least 5,000 years ago, and long before the advent of the Roman Empire, the Babylonians began […]

Sheet Glass Manufacture: the Float Process Glass, which has been made since the time of the Mesopotamians and Egyptians, is little more than a mixture of […]

Striking Back at Lightning with Lasers Seldom is the weather more dramatic than when thunderstorms strike. Their electrical fury inflicts death or serious injury on around […]

Land of the Rising Sun A Japan has a significantly better record in terms of average mathematical attainment than England and Wales. Large sample international comparisons […]

William Henry Perkin William Henry Perkin was born on March 12, 1838, in London, England. As a boy, Perkin’s curiosity prompted early interests in the arts, […]