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The discovery of the Higgs boson made headlines around the world. Two scientists, Peter Higgs and François Englert, whose theories predicted its ex...

For thousands of years voyagers of inner space - spiritual seekers, shamans and mystics - have returned from their inner travels reporting anot...

Ada Lovelace, the daughter of Lord Byron was born in 1815 just after the Battle of Waterloo, and died aged 36, soon after the Great Exhibition of 1...

Geologists are among that group of scientists who must factor the passage of time into their investigations and they thus have a perspective on tim...

Actions have consequences--and the ability to learn from them revolutionized life on earth. While it's easy enough to see that consequences are imp...

An exploration of space and time and a journey of discovery, through thirteen of the most fascinating Christmas Lectures given at the Royal Institu...

Every human body carries a secret cargo: a huge population of microorganisms living in the mouth, on the skin, in the gut. They help digest our foo...

Here is the definitive new edition of the hugely popular collection of Einstein quotations that has sold tens of thousands of copies worldwide and ...

Heart of Darkness describes the incredible saga of humankind's quest to unravel the deepest secrets of the universe. Over the past thirty years, sc...

Richard A. Muller demonstrated in his recent bestseller, Physics for Future Presidents, that he has a unique talent for delivering the aha momentma...

Sociologist Duncan Watts explains in this provocative book that the explanations that we give for the outcomes that we observe in life - explanatio...

A profound and delightful jeu d'esprit of a book, mixing biography, etymology, cultural history and quixotic scientific experiments. Aldersey-Willi...

Before the Higgs boson, there was a maddening search for another particle that holds the secrets of the universe the neutrino. First detected in 1...

There are many books about philosophy, but Who Am I? And If So How Many? is different from the rest. Never before has anyone introduced readers so ...

Leading us through cognitive theory, neuroscience and Darwinian evolution with his trademark wit and wisdom, Michael Corballis explains what we kno...

Cells are the basis of all life in the universe. Our bodies are made up of billions of them: an incredibly complex society that governs everything...

Falling in love is one of the strangest things we can do - and one of the things that makes us uniquely human. But what happens to our brains when...

The history of medicine is a vast subject, encompassing the whole of humanity in every region of the globe. For millennia, our ancestors have sough...

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...

Is it possible to 'send' thoughts into someone else's brain? Can random number generators predict future events? Why does a placebo work like a dru...

The past century has witnessed a revolution. Less than a hundred years ago, the average Western life expectancy was 40; now it is 80. And there is ...

What is the nature of the material world? How does it work? What is the universe and how was it formed? What is life? Where do we come from and how...

A global catastrophic risk is one with the potential to wreak death and destruction on a global scale. In human history, wars and plagues have done...