Masked intruders who held Olympic cyclist Mark Cavendish at knifepoint as they robbed his house must repay more than £750,000 ...

This story was originally published by Inside Science News Service. Henry Cavendish was an odd man. He never addressed strangers directly and was petrified of women. He had a staircase built into ...

But there was a problem: Nobody could figure out a number for G. Then, in 1797, physicist Henry Cavendish began what became known as the "Cavendish experiments." Using an object called a torsion ...

In 1797 Henry Cavendish, one of Great Britain’s leading scientists, built a contraption to weigh the world. At the time, Earth’s mass was unknown, as was its composition. Was it mostly solid rock?

This is the only picture of Henry Cavendish, and the reason is that he was very uncomfortable about sitting for portraits, in fact he never did it. So this was done mainly by an artist who ...

THE Cambridge edition of the scientific papers of Henry Cavendish is much more than a mere reprint. In 1879 an edition of the electrical researches was published, a work to which Clerk Maxwell ...

Contributions: Cavendish is noted for his discovery of hydrogen or what he called "inflammable air". He described the density of inflammable air, which formed water on combustion, in a 1766 paper ...