At the end of a lecture on astronomy, describing how the planets orbit the Sun, a little old lady at the back of the room stood up and said: "What you've told us is all rubbish. The world is really a ...

AMONG the large number of text-books of elementary chemistry written for the use of schools, this volume will take its place with the very few that are not specially designed to prepare the student ...

So, say hello to the men who turned chemistry from Breaking Bad into Breaking Good. This year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry is actually pretty easy to get — and no, it doesn’t involve blue crystals or an ...