Beginning in 1827, [Michael Faraday] began giving a series of public lectures at Christmas on various subjects. The “Christmas Lectures” continued for 19 years and became wildly popular with ...

On the latest episode of "Cosmos: A SpaceTime Odyssey," program host Neil de Grasse Tyson focused on 19th century British scientist Michael Faraday, whom we can thank for much of the technology we ...

[T]he statistics published in the ... annual report on the use of soap per person in Britain ... imply that the Briton of today is almost five times cleaner than his great great grandparents were in ...