Popular Science

Science is a wide-ranging and fascinating subject and a key part of the school curriculum. This handy reference guide uses a question and answer fo...

'Anyone who wants to get better at anything should read Peak.' Fortune Do you want to stand out at work, improve your athletic or musical performan...

The history of science is often seen as a story of advancement but nothing could be further from the truth. Science, it is true, has progressed, bu...

An exploration of why we don''t talk to strangers, and the wonderful things that would happen if we did.''In a thrilling, immersive journey across ...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Those who feel doomed to be fat would be well advised to digest every word of Taubes's cogently argued, agenda-shifti...

Geoffrey West's research centres on a quest to find unifying principles and patterns connecting everything, from cells and ecosystems to cities, so...

What is Big Data, and why should you care? Big data knows where you've been and who your friends are. It knows what you like and what makes you an...

A concise and illuminating tour of the human body - learn about how our bodies work and why they work the way they do, in minutes. From the basic u...

Edited and introduced by Bill Bryson, with contributions from Richard Dawkins, Margaret Atwood, Richard Holmes, Martin Rees, Richard Fortey, Steve ...

Robert Lanza is one of the most respected scientists in the world--a US News & World Report cover story called him a genius and a renegade thin...

'His clarity, wit and determination are evident, his understand and good humour moving' New ScientistMy Brief History recounts Stephen Hawkings imp...

Will give pleasure to anyone interested in original thinking about the brainBreathtakingly original Financial Times The trailblazing investigation ...

The Sun is so powerful, so much bigger than us, that it is a terrifying subject. Yet though we depend on it, we take it for granted. Amazingly the ...

John, aged sixty, suffered a stroke and recovered fully, except in one respect: although he can see perfectly, he can no longer recognise faces, ev...