Nov. 30: It's St. Andrew's Day, the national day of Scotland. So we offer a toast to the great inventors who have applied Scottish ingenuity to their work over the years, helping craft the modern ...

Scotland has long been known as a nation of innovators. The Scots have had a hand in everything, from mammal cloning to the steam engine. Though the country is steeped in tradition and pride, it's ...

The vote for Scottish independence has been and gone, and few can deny that this was a momentous moment in the history of the United Kingdom. Whether you were hoping for Scottish independence and saw ...

On behalf of Americans of Scottish ancestry, I would like to correct a statement in an article in the A.M. Magazine of Jan. 10. It stated that an English inventor named Baird invented video-discs. It ...

Scotland didn't just give us the fried Mars bars and Haggis. The country, which voted to remain part of the United Kingdom on Thursday, was responsible for inventions such as the television and the ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

LONDON, England – Passengers arriving at Heathrow today could be forgiven for thinking they’ve been diverted to an airport north of the border thanks to its tartan takeover, which stretches from the ...

In the 1930s, Scottish inventor George Bennie unveiled the Railplane — a sleek, propeller-driven pod designed to glide above existing railroad tracks at over 100 miles per hour. It worked flawlessly ...

NEW DELHI, (IANS) – Twenty-one years after the UK’s then foreign secretary Robin Cook declared Chicken Tikka Masala, popularly known by its initials CTM, as “a true British national dish”, and a ...

A pioneering piece of Scottish history has been brought back to life. Nearly 100 years after John Logie Baird's ground-breaking work, engineering students at the University of Strathclyde have ...