Хэйли Берч is the British popularizer of science, author of popular scientific works on biology, chemistry, ecology and synthesis of science and art, her articles are published in "Гардиан", a "Би-би-си is Focus", "Нью сайентист" and "Mosaic". She is an author of a few popular scientific books sanctified to science history.Chemistry is our daily occurence. How do silicic chips work? How to compel natural substances to contest with still human illnesses? And whether it is possible to create artificial muscles? On these and many other questions your explorer answers in the world of modern chemical knowledge is "Chemistry. 50 ideas it is needed to know" about that. From molecules with that life was begun on our planet, to nanotechnologies - chemistry tells about our origin and continues from year to year to change everything, with what we adjoin and from what depend in the way of life, to the unrecognizability. This book in fifty short heads will describe for you the newest research methods and will explain modern chemical theories in their evolution.