Science

War. Fast Food. Pornography. Pervasive in our culture, these three obsessions may seem to represent the worst qualities of humankind. But what have...

From the mid-eighteenth century to the early twentieth, a colorful band of amateur naturalists explored the most perilous corners of the planet to ...

We all do it - how to be a better liar, spot a charlatan and tell the difference between truth and fictionIn Born Liars, Ian Leslie takes the reade...

What happened to the European mind between 1605, when an audience watching Macbeth at the Globe might believe that regicide was such an aberration ...

The Internet and smartphone are just the latest in a 250 year long cycle of disruption that has continuously changed the way we live, the way we wo...

With Wind Wizard, Siobhan Roberts brings us the story of Alan Davenport (1932-2009), the father of modern wind engineering, who investigated how wi...

Our bodies are amazing. The microscopic elements of the human body are profoundly fascinating and also beautiful. We unearth some of the most wond...

Can you outrun a bullet? How do you build an electronic brain? Could you slow down time? How do you unleash chaos? From Plato's classification o...

What can we learn from fish in a pond? How do social networks connect the world? How can artificial intelligences learn? Why would life be differen...

This Will Change Everything offers seemingly radical but actually feasible ideas with the potential to change the world.-Jared Diamond, Pulitzer Pr...

This is a classic work on the relationship between science and human qualities, made available again for today's readers.The authors ask questions ...

Peter Atkins captures the heart of chemistry in this book, through an innovative, closely integrated design of images and text, and his characteris...

Science tells us grand things about the universe: how fast light travels, and why stones fall to earth. But scientific endeavour goes far beyond th...

Science is full of surprises: the peculiar peepshow beginnings of baby incubators; the unexpected positive fallout from the H-bomb; the dinosaurs t...

Well, why not? Is it because elephants are too large or heavy (after all, they say hippos and rhinos can play hopscotch)? Or is it because their kn...