There is an often-overused idiom about managing scientists: ‘It’s a little bit like herding cats’.
The earliest wines go back thousands of years, whether in China or in the arc of land running from the South Caucasus to the Fertile Crescent.
What is biotechnology? This simple question is very hard to answer in a few words.
The future of the world’s energy supplies has been the subject of mounting concern for several decades.
Now that plastics have become the bête noir of the environmentalists, it seems timely to publish a book explaining in simple terms what they are.
This year has seen a flurry of interest in the dangers of plastics waste in the biosphere.
This book makes available, for the first time, an authoritative and comprehensive account of the life and work of John Meurig Thomas.
Go into any bookshop and the likelihood is that you’ll find books on crime taking up more shelf space than most other topics.
Aromatic chemistry has captivated researchers, teachers and students of chemistry for almost two centuries.
In presenting an account of the origins of science, this work endorses what is now referred to the ‘scientific method’.