Author: Martin Rees

A History Today Book of the YearA world-renowned astronomer and an esteemed science writer make the provocative argument for space exploration with...

Our universe seems strangely biophilic, or hospitable to life. Is this happenstance, providence, or coincidence? According to cosmologist Martin Re...

Astronomer Royal Martin Rees shows how the behaviour and origins of the universe can be explained by just six numbers.How did a single genesis even...

Richly illustrated with the images from observatories on the ground and in space, and computer simulations, this book shows how black holes were di...

We are buried beneath mountains of fast-accumulating data. In such circumstances, this book, rather than adding to the data load, aims to offer rea...

Science in the twenty-first century inherits a fantastic record of accomplishment. Yet there remain enormous questions to answer - some of them rev...

After Shock marks the 50-year anniversary of Alvin Tofflers, Future Shock. The compendium of essays comprising this landmark volume offers insightf...

When it comes to big science, very few things are conclusively known. From Quantum Mechanics to Natural Selection, what we have instead are theorie...