Science

The life and work of one of the twentieth century's most famous scientists “Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.

The story of Alexander Fleming and the discovery that changed medicine forever... There are now Radical Tea Towels of each of the top three ‘Greatest Scots’, at least as voted in 2009: Robert Burns, , and our newest addition, Alexander Fleming.

He may not be a household name, but Alan L. Hart was a pioneer in more ways than one John Keats. Eugène Delacroix. Emily Brontë. Andrew Jackson. If you died in bed in the nineteenth century, the chances are that it was tuberculosis that killed you.

Today is the anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima, but many of the Manhattan Project scientists who helped create it were not fans of atomic weapons – they became the founders of the movement for nuclear disarmament.

The late Professor Stephen Hawking, a committed Leftist, often intervened in political debates. His approach to Brexit is an excellent compass for guiding progressives through the post-referendum world.