Vitamin D deficiency was rampant among children during the Industrial Revolution but was partly seasonal, reveals new research. Lack of the "sunshine vitamin" causes rickets and its prevalence in ...

Experts say we've arrived at the Fourth Industrial Revolution...and it requires a fusion of hands-on skills and high-tech knowledge. Breakthroughs in innovative technologies are already re-shaping the ...

Next month, The Science and Industry Museum will reopen the Power Hall to the public with a free exhibition where visitors can experience the “sights, smells and sounds of the engines” which powered ...

"The Industrial Revolution and its consequences," reads the opening lines of "Unabomber" Ted Kaczynski's notorious manifesto, "have been a disaster for the human race." Kaczynski, who recently died in ...

Long before the onset of the first industrial revolution around 1760, it is recorded that early humans used crude weapons to hunt, employed basic methods to fish in shallow waters, and toiled with ...

A new opera will compare the emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) with the impact of the Industrial Revolution in West Yorkshire. The Last Machine Breaker, by Huddersfield composer Ben Crick, ...