While the Chinese have been credited with the invention of paper some 2,000 years ago, this improvement takes the humble material to a whole new generation. A research team at the Shanghai ...

China's long history has seen some extremely important inventions emerge, most noticeably gunpowder, paper making, printing and the compass, which, in the words of Roger Bacon, changed the whole ...

When going through our day, it’s rare to stop and recognize various technologies that we take for granted today. All the best ...

told through eight everyday products. What do you get if you mix rags, hemp and old fishnets with the bark of a mulberry tree? Mercifully, this isn’t a recipe for a particularly revolting folk ...

It’s easy to take many of the things we use every day for granted. Can you imagine a world without toothpaste, fridges, reading glasses and toilet paper? BBC Bitesize takes a look at these four ...

Some may recognize the name Bette Nesmith Graham, if only because she was the mother of musician and composer Robert Michael ...