This volume profiles 50 famous women scientists from the ancient Greek mathematician, philosopher and astronomer Hypatia, to Marie Curie, with the aim of encouraging young women and girls to pursue careers in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields
Traces the journey taken by the ideas of three of the greatest scientists of antiquity - Euclid, Galen and Ptolemy - through seven cities and over a thousand years. We follow them from sixth-century Alexandria to ninth-century Baghdad, from Muslim Cordoba to Catholic Toledo, fro…
The Winter 2012 (vol. 14 no. 1) issue of the Nexus Network Journal is dedicated to the theme “Architecture, Systems Research and Computational Sciences”. This is an outgrowth of the session by the same name which took place during the eighth international, interdisciplinary conf…
The environment and contested notions of sustainability are increasingly topics of public interest, political debate, and legislation across the world. Environmental education journals now publish research from a wide variety of methodological traditions that show linkages betwe…
The media reports on the latest scientific discoveries and breakthroughs can seem like a foreign language, from black holes, to dark matter and exoplanets to leap seconds. Finally get to grips with these difficult concepts by reading Ben Gilliland's unique take on them
Accompanying Radio 4's landmark six-month-long series presented by Brett Westwood, 'Natural Histories' explores 25 unexpected species that have changed the way we see the world. From cockroaches to coral, and from mammoths to meteorites, their stories are extraordinary and eye-o…
Robert Langdon vågner op med hukommelsestab på et hospital i Firenze. Snart må han med hjælp fra den unge, smukke og snarrådige læge Sienna Brooks tage flugten med en lejemorder i hælene, mens Langdon må optrevle en række gåder baseret på Dantes digt Inferno for at redde mennesk…
