Aventis prizes for science books 2004
Bryson gives away Aventis winnings
Bill Bryson, winner of last week's Aventis prize is to donate his £10,000 prize to charity
Travel writer Bryson wins science prize
The £10,000 Aventis science book prize last night went to Bill Bryson, a travel writer with almost no background in science.
Author takes swipe at scientific elite
Researchers forget that making errors is path to knowledge.
Worms to wormholes in Aventis prize shortlist
Science, not fiction
Steven Rose on Backroom Boys, Francis Spufford's paean to British ingenuity
Everything you've ever wanted to know (but didn't dare ask)
John Waller is impressed by Bill Bryson's quirky, energetic and highly entertaining history of science, A Short History of Everything
Natural conclusion
Steven Rose welcomes Matt Ridley's proposal for an end to the 'Darwin wars' in Nature via Nurture
The worm's turn
Steven Rose admires Andrew Brown's story of the biologists who went from nerds to Nobel winners, In the Beginning Was the Worm