I like December. I like the changing weather, and the cold and frost (weird, I know – I just like being able to wrap up warm and go outside!), and the anticipation of Christmas. I like excuses to stay inside curled up with the cats. ...
As anyone who knows me will tell you, I like food and I like cooking. I especially like being creative with flavours, textures, and presentation, particularly making things look something else / not food / similar. (The time I made ...
Inspired by my trip to the Superbugs exhibition at London’s Science Museum, last week I wrote about the Rise of the Superbug and how they came to be. Obviously we want to do our best to prevent any more developing, but that still ...
This year, antibiotics were voted Britain’s greatest invention by the public in a TV collaboration between the BBC and the Science Museum. And it’s true: antibiotics really have changed the world. Antibiotic use has its downsides ...
This weekend will see bonfires and fireworks across the country, remembering and celebrating the gunpowder plot (or rather, the foiling there of) in 1605. But what is the science of gunpowder, key to the original gunpowder plot and ...
