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The perfect companion to any flight - a guide to the science on view from your window seat. There are few times when science is so immediate as whe...

Bats Sing, Mice Giggle tracks many years of research by hundreds of scientists that reveals how wild animals, as well as pets, have inner, secret l...

It's an astonishing fact that capturing all the energy in just one hour's worth of sunlight would enable us to meet the planet's food and energy ne...

In this dazzling look at the new science of genetics and the frontiers of human potential, David Shenk argues that talent - for piano playing, spri...

Science tells us that life elsewhere in the Universe is increasingly likely to be discovered. But in fact the Earth may be a very unusual planet - ...

In this dazzling look at the new science of genetics and the frontiers of human potential, David Shenk argues that talent - for piano playing, spri...

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2014 WINTON ROYAL SOCIETY PRIZE FOR SCIENCE BOOKSAs troubling as we pattern-seeking humans may find it, modern science has repea...

For almost four billion years, microbes had the primordial oceans all to themselves. The stewards of Earth, these organisms transformed the chemist...

Darwins theory of natural selection was a monumental step in our understanding of evolution, explaining how useful adaptations are preserved over g...

Science tells us that life elsewhere in the Universe is increasingly likely to be discovered. But in fact the Earth may be a very unusual planet - ...

What is time? The 5th-century philosopher St Augustine famously said that he knew what time was, so long as no one asked him.Is time a fourth dimen...

DNA ancestry companies generate revenues in the region of $1bn a year, and the company 23andMe is said to have sold 10 million DNA ancestry kits to...

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring In the last few years global awareness of climate change has grown very rapidly - through th...

''A fascinating exploration of how we learned what matter really is, and the journey matter takes from the Big Bang, through exploding stars, ultim...

'A necessary book for our times. But also just great fun' Saul Perlmutter, Nobel LaureateThe world is awash in bullshit, and we're drowning in it. ...

''A lively study of the Big C, which makes the case that cancer is the price we pay for our marvellously complicated bodies.'' The Times, best book...

''A fascinating and challenging story'' New York Review of Books ''This is an incredibly absorbing and insightful book about the most important sc...

Is it possible to build a star on earth? When asked what problem he hoped scientists will have solved by the end of the century, Professor Stephen ...

Chemistry's most significant chart, the Periodic Table, and its 118 elements, is laid bare in this lively, accessible and compelling expose.The per...

'[A]n engaging exploration, ending with interesting speculation on the nature of a future 11th day.'Peet Morris, Times Higher EducationDevelopments...

Ever wondered what's going on inside your head?You are your brain. Everything that makes you you, and all your experiences of the world, are someho...

The spellbinding stories of the scientists whose eureka! breakthroughs in modern physics reveal science's astonishing predictive power.'An excellen...

What are genes? What do genes do? These questions are not simple and straightforward to answer; at the same time, simplistic answers are quite prev...

** WINNER OF THE PEN HESSELL-TILTMAN PRIZE 2021 ** 'Beautiful, evocative, authoritative.' Professor Brian Cox 'Important reading not just for any...

'A work of exhilarating scope and relevance ... What a rare and powerful experience to feel a book in your very body' Naomi Klein'Health is not som...

For most of human history, sudden and unexpected deaths of a suspicious nature, when they were investigated at all, were examined by lay persons wi...

An original graphic novel based on the IVF stories of its husband-and-wife authors and the 1-in-50 couples around the world like them. Conrad and J...

How do you remember more and forget less? How can you earn more and become more creative just by moving house? And how do you pack a car ...

In 2003 the Human Genome Project announced that it had achieved a stunning scientific breakthrough: the full map of the human genome, and with it o...

What is like to live without touch or movement/position sense (proprioception)? The only way to understand the importance of these senses, so famil...

Citizen science enlists members of the public to make and record useful observations, such as counting birds in their backyards, watching for the f...

A little over a century ago the world went wireless. Cables and all their limiting inefficiencies gave way to a revolutionary means of transmitting...

'A gripping and sobering reminder of how much we are all governed by our genetic inheritance. So much for free will.' The Mail on Sunday Stress, o...

Winner of the Science Writers and Communicators of Canada General Audience award We live at the bottom of an ocean of air - 5,200 million millio...