chemistry

Who knew that chemistry could be so entertaining?

14 December 2019 9:00 am

Here’s how the element antimony got its name. Once upon a time (according to the 17th-century apothecary Pierre Pomet), a…

Carbon – the stuff of life we’re shamefully ignorant about

26 May 2018 9:00 am

‘I didn’t realise we were carbon,’ said a friend to whom I mentioned this book. She was the first of…