Science

The first known navigators were the Phoenicians, who 3000 years ago sailed the Mediterran...

Astronomy is perhaps the oldest science. The ancients saw cosmic meanings in the stars, a...

Modern chemistry emerged from the historical traditions of metalworking (beginning as ear...

The concept of the atomthe smallest physical building block of naturehas been around at l...

Science is a way of knowing thats characterized by the rules of logic and the methods of ...

Creativity is often considered an innate gift, not something that can be learned or optim...

"In this dramatic and shocking account, Rodney Barker tells the full and terrifying story...

A serious fire developed in the core of a nuclear reactor at Windscale Works, Sellafield,...

During the five-year voyage of the Beagle, the young naturalist Darwin collected some of ...

During the first three decades of the twentieth century, eugenics, the scientific control...

Over the last forty years, scientists have uncovered evidence that if the Universe had be...

In this Very Short Introduction Jan Zalasiewicz gives a brief introduction to the fascina...

Genomics has transformed the biological sciences. From epidemiology and medicine to evolu...

In The Lives of a Cell, Dr. Thomas opens up to the listener a universe of knowledge and ...

How does the physics we know today—a highly professionalized enterprise, inextricab...

When people look up into the night sky, the stars seem fixed and immutable, as unchangin...

Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace had a remarkable friendship and were the co-disc...

Viruses are big news. From pandemics such as HIV, swine flu, and SARS, we are constantly ...

Enzymes are the astonishing, tiny molecular machines that make life possible. Each one of...

This is a fascinating introduction to the history of Western astronomy, from prehistoric ...

Quantum theory is the most revolutionary discovery in physics since Newton. This book giv...

Astrobiology is an exciting new subject, and one, arguably, more interdisciplinary than a...

Neuroscientists have shown that music recruits nearly every area of the brain, fostering ...

When Albert Einstein published his first paper on relativity theory, it caused a stir in ...

We can thrive in the changing climate.Production & yield, pest & disease pressure, food q...

Ball Lightning is a phenomena which definitely exists. One European study counted over 5,...

The fundamentals of biology beam its searchlight on all the basic principles contained in...

There are many fine scripts of quantum chemistry and physics in print at this time. So th...

More than a few greatest hits of the physicists right from the singularities of the gravi...

Quantum mechanics? Just hearing the name, we get sick. It seems to be something complicat...

Want to learn about the basics of quantum physics and impress your friends at cocktail pa...

The laws of thermodynamics drive everything that happens in the universe. From the sudden...

If you move at high speed, time slows down, space squashes up, and you get heavier. Trave...

The periodic table of elements, first encountered by many of us at school, provides an ar...

Some people are cleverer than others. This everyday observation is the subject of an acad...

The study of human evolution is advancing rapidly. Newly discovered fossil evidence is ad...

String theory corresponds to a theoretical (As the name implies) framework introduced in ...

Modern Chemistry Lavoisier’s results and Atomic Theory provided chemists their firs...

Modern science and physics in particular, primarily consists of two basic theories, namel...

In 2020, an invisible germ—a virus—wholly upended our lives. We're most famil...

A short and entertaining introduction to thermodynamics that uses real-world examples to ...

A concise overview of carbon dioxide capture and storage (CCS), a promising but overlooke...

Among the estimated one hundred billion solar systems in the known universe, evolving lif...

"Maude Barlow is one of our planet's greatest water defenders." ? Naomi Klein, bestsellin...

What are Cryptozoological animals? They are very rare animals which might even be imagina...

A forgotten heroine of science and how she solved one of the crucial mysteries of the uni...

Fluid mechanics is an important branch of physics concerned with the way in which fluids,...

Theoretical physicist Bohm developed a theory of quantum physics that addresses both matt...

Bohm tells us why science has become specialized and fragmented at the cost of its soul. ...

Bohm addresses the nature of thought and thinking, and how our conditioned minds become s...