The 600 pages are peppered with nuggets of wisdom that remain true today.

Originally formed in 1905 when water escaped from irrigation systems, the Salton Sea is considered California’s largest lake, but also classified as an inland sea due to its lack of outflows. It has a ...

Cecilia Payne deduced that the sun is mainly made of hydrogen - but was encouraged to downplay her findings by her PhD ...

The commission subsequently proposed changes to gene-edited plant regulations. The European parliament then voted in February ...

The Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel – a prominent research institution that is home to about 2500 scientists ...

Chemistry chairs warn that they face the same problems afflicting the UK with the Trump administration adding to their woes ...

Cobalt is a critical component of green technologies like battery electrodes and the magnets in electric motors and wind ...

Raphaël Lévy talks to Chemistry World about reporting Jolanda Spadavecchia, the backlash he faced and how misconduct should ...

Turing’s most significant work, ‘On computable numbers’, which introduced the idea of a ‘universal computing machine’, was ...

In 1825, Michael Faraday discovered one of the most fascinating compounds in chemistry: benzene . While isolating the ...

Lithium supplies in Europe and the US will not meet demand for electric vehicle batteries by 2030, despite significant ...

St Andrews librarians and physicists partner to create sensor that can detect the spectrum of toxic green colourant ...