These days, we would call them proprietary blends. But in the late 1500s and early 1600s, individual alchemists called the ...

Tycho Brahe’s flamboyant lifestyle was the stuff ... castle and received substantial funding to build an astronomical ...

It was in Hven that Tycho Brahe built his two observatories: Uraniborg, which was also an alchemy laboratory, the first custom-built observatory in modern Europe, and Stjerneborg, an underground ...

This image from the James Webb Space Telescope shows the “mountains” and “valleys” formed at the edge of a nearby stellar nursery called NGC 3324, located in the northwest corner of the Carina Nebula.

It turns out that Tycho Brahe, mostly known for his study of astronomy, had his own basement laboratory for mixing medicines—including some particular elements. Brahe’s famed observatory ...