Stories
- Article
The secrets your teeth hold
Discover how innocuous-looking human teeth hold a wealth of hidden information about our diet, health and evolution.
- Article
What is air, and how do we know?
Watching bubbles in fermenting beer led 18th-century scientist Joseph Priestley to invent sparkling water – and to discover that different gases make up the air we breathe.
- Article
Beyond a green carpet
Plant ecologist Sara Middleton explores the amazing symbiotic relationships between the species that make up grasslands, and considers their future as rain becomes more scarce.
- Book extract
Naked, not nude
Classicist Caroline Vout argues that it’s time to take the dust covers off the Ancient Greeks and Romans, and to encounter their bodies not nude, but naked.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Nitrogen
Date: c. 1860Reference: MS.1149Part of: Berthelot, Pierre Eugène Marcelin (1827-1907)- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
[Nitrogen]
Date: 1930sReference: PP/GMG/B/49Part of: M'Gonigle, George Cuthbert Mura- Books
Nitrogen oxides.
Date: 1997- Archives and manuscripts
'Nitrogen Mustards'
Date: 1940sReference: PP/HAD/B.109Part of: Haddow, Professor Sir Alexander (1907-1976)- Archives and manuscripts
Nitrogen metabolism
Date: 1920-1950Reference: PP/CHI/C.2Part of: Dame Harriette Chick