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Dramatised by Alan Lightman, the second law of thermodynamics incorporates the theory of entropy
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This year marks the 50th anniversary of C P Snow's famous Rede Lecture entitled 'The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution'
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Alcohol makes us lose balance, but heavy water has the opposite effect. Could a 'heavy' gin and tonic get us drunk but keep us upright?
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This year marks the bicentenary of Charles Darwin's birth and the sesquicentenary of his On the Origin of Species, one of the most important and influential books ever published.
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My boyfriend continues to question why his car battery has chosen today (at -2°C) to fail
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O heaven, O earth, bear witness to this sound The Tempest, William Shakespeare
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The old carbon-filament electric lamp was essentially a fine graphite filament in a vacuum
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Anyone who has any laboratory teaching experience can tell you how difficult it can be to get students to follow instructions
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My first memory of being taught chemistry is being told to learn the names of all the elements, in order.
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When the magazine New Scientist was started in 1958, each reviewer also got a little brown sample of 'silly putty'
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Which chemist's work has touched the most lives? Marie Curie? Louis Pasteur? Joseph Lister?