Which chemist, who inspired the fashion for breathing in the newly discovered nitrous oxide (laughing gas), almost killed himself while testing the effects of carbon monoxide? The answer can be found ...
These lists of the best-selling physics books for the year to the end of October at Amazon, the on-line bookstore, seem to confirm that rule. While the two Stephens -Hawking and Wolfram – are am...
Even the great Isaac Newton – taking a break from celestial matters by sipping a cup of coffee under his favourite apple tree – might have been stymied by one mundane question. How, he may...