Apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh-water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?

Well, for the answers to that question, along with a couple of quirky...

Encyclopaedia Britannica has announced that it is launching a series of educational apps, aimed at 8-12 year-olds, that are "designed to keep kids busy for hours on end with exciting facts, maps, memory games, puzzles, quizzes and videos".

The...

In order to better compete with Wikipedia, one of the top ten most visited sites in the world, the Encyclopedia Britannica is to open its online version up to edits from the public.

The new user-generated content, rolling out now on the encyclopedia's...

There was a time when all good homes had a row of books on a shelf that could be referred to whenever a question or homework topic arose. Technology condensed this to DVD form but now that we have the Internet and all the information we could ever need...