As a materials scientist, I’m interested in what can happen when new materials become available. Glass, steel and rare earth magnets are all examples of how innovation in materials science has driven technological change and, as a result, shaped global economies, politics and the environment.

This paper covers a broad range of complex and related dynamics that collectively contributed to the conquests of Mexico and Peru by the Spanish. 

How did religious reform shape scientific progress? The intriguing link between Protestantism and the Scientific Revolution.

[Communism in China series: Part 1] The fall of the Chinese monarchy and the rise of communism under Yat-Sen.