The past and its investigation involves the study of evidence from sources to build an understanding of past places, people and events. History, archaeology and science contribute to this process. These techniques play different roles in the process of investigating the past. Contributing to the i...
It is on every visitor's itinerary and, along with the mummies of Egypt, is the most popular object in the British Museum. Why? To look at, it is decidedly dull - it is a grey stone, about the size of one of those large suitcases you see people trundling around on wheels at airports, and the rough e...
It applies the physics of stress and strain, in particular the theories of elasticity and plasticity, to the microscopic crystallographic defects found in real materials in order to predict the macroscopic mechanical failure of bodies. ...
