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How to clone a sheep. How to build a brain. How to boil a planet. How to save the world. From the microscopic to the cosmic, this book takes you on...

**SHORTLISTED FOR THE WELLCOME BOOK PRIZE****A GUARDIAN SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEAR**Riveting invites comparison to Rebecca Skloot's The Immortal Lif...

Big History, the field that studies the entire known past of our universe to give context to human existence, has so far been the domain of histori...

Honeybees make decisions collectively - and democratically. Every year, faced with the life-or-death problem of choosing and traveling to a new hom...

Everybody knows that mathematics is indispensable to physics--imagine where we'd be today if Einstein and Newton didn't have the math to back up th...

In his entertaining and informative book Graphic Discovery, Howard Wainer unlocked the power of graphical display to make complex problems clear. N...

How to Make a Mind tells the reader how he or she may equip a robot with a central control system that could enable it to behave precisely like a h...

What exactly is inside a laptop, a golf ball, a vacuum cleaner, or a novelty singing fish toy? The insides of these and dozens of other objects are...

While the health of aging men has been a focus of biomedical research for years, evolutionary biology has not been part of the conversation--until ...

Many people are convinced that, among other courses taught in schools, chemistry is a difficult and complex subject. This view is often arrived at ...

What are the strangest numbers? Where do numbers come from? Can maths guarantee riches? Why are three dimensions not enough? Can a butterfly's wing...

Part history, part philosophy, part love letter to the study of mathematics, Everything and More is an illuminating tour of infinity. With his infe...

Many people believe that, at its core, biological sex is a fundamental, diverging force in human development. According to this overly familiar sto...

Quantum physicist, New York Times bestselling author, and BBC host Jim Al-Khalili offers a fascinating and illuminating look at what physics reveal...

Air sustains the living. Every creature breathes to live, exchanging and changing the atmosphere. Water and dust spin and rise, make clouds and fal...

Every physicist agrees quantum mechanics is among humanity's finest scientific achievements. But ask what it means, and the result will be a brawl....

The link between our biomes, gut bacteria and our overall health is the final frontier of medicine that we must now embrace if we are ever to adva...

How math holds the keys to improving ones health, wealth, and love lifeWhats the best diet for overall health and weight management? How can we cha...

Debunking myths behind what is known collectively as the new cosmology-a grand, overlapping set of narratives that claim to bring science and spiri...

When Indonesia's Mount Tambora erupted in 1815, it unleashed the most destructive wave of extreme weather the world has witnessed in thousands of y...

An essential guide to recognizing bogus numbers and misleading dataNumbers are often intimidating, confusing, and even deliberately deceptiveespeci...

Alcoholism, as opposed to the safe consumption of alcohol, remains a major public health issue. In this accessible book, Robert Dudley presents an ...

Why the social character of scientific knowledge makes it trustworthyDo doctors really know what they are talking about when they tell us vaccines ...