Böcker av Peter Spencer

Trudi Penislow is a seriously feisty (and precocious) nine-year-old Cornish girl on a mission to save the world from climate catastrophe. Though her dad‿s a former Prime Minister she reckons she‿s got the better handle on political activism.

So what Trudi‿s only just turned five? Somehow or other she always manages to get close to the action. Too close for her own good in this story, as she ends up getting kidnapped not once but twice. Happily, because she‿s as irresistible as she is resourceful, she either escapes from or wins round her captors.

The importance of water to all life on Earth cannot be overstated. Although it is considered a simple liquid, water has been under intense scrutiny at the molecular scale for several decades. The directional nature of hydrogen bonds ensures that water molecules are not random but have a great propensity towards order, particularly at the interface of other substances. This study investigates some recent claims of long-range ordering of interface water molecules, giving rise to a phase between liquid and solid.