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ReviewBillion Dollar Burger: Inside Big Tech’s Race for the Future of Food
A perceptive account of what might be the the food industry’s next big thing: lab-grown meat
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Sticking Together: The Science of Adhesion
This book will answer everything you ever wanted to know about how things stick to other things – from geckos to PVA adhesive
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Toxic: A History of Nerve Agents, From Nazi Germany to Putin’s Russia
A comprehensive and timely book covering events from 1931 to 2018
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Biography of Resistance: The Epic Battle Between People and Pathogens
A book illustrating a global health threat more daunting than Covid-19: growing antibiotic resistance
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Giving the Devil his Due: Reflections of a Scientific Humanist
‘The counter to bad ideas is good ideas. The rebuttal to pseudoscience is better science.’
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Written in Bone: Hidden Stories in What We Leave Behind
A forensic anthropology pageturner filled with cases ranging from historic excavations to recent murder investigations
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Pompeii’s paintings imperilled by precipitates
Volcanic ash protected the city’s frescos for centuries, now it might hasten their decline
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Spinach on The Ceiling: The Multifaceted Life of a Theoretical Chemist
Martin Karplus’ autobiography offers deep insights into his scientific work but few personal touches
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Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century
Accounts of grief and joy, independence and interdependence, challenge and transformative creativity
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‘Forgotten’ Egyptian blue pigment found in Raphael fresco
Scientists speculate that knowledge of making the ‘first synthetic pigment’ wasn’t quite as lost as some have supposed
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The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking)
Universe-ending scenarios made to fit our tiny human minds
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Hot Molecules, Cold Electrons
A journey through history and science that lets readers to work out their maths muscles
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What Stars are Made of: The Life of Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
Remarkable insights into the life and work of the world’s first astrochemist
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Alien Oceans: The Search for Life in the Depths of Space
A Nasa scientist’s search for unusual ecosystems – in the depths of our own oceans and much further afield
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Keep Calm and Log On: Your Handbook for Surviving the Digital Revolution
A resource-rich title covering everything from online etiquette to cybersecurity, all with a dash of history
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United We Are Unstoppable: 60 Inspiring Young People Saving Our World
Light on the science but full of surprising insights as young climate activists from 41 countries tell their stories
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How to Argue with a Racist: History, Science, Race and Reality
The perfect ammunition to respond to racial discrimination should you encounter someone trying to justify their prejudice with science
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Drink? The New Science of Alcohol and Your Health
A book questioning the normalcy of drinking, exploring personal and policy responses to excessive alcohol consumption
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The Triumph of Doubt: Dark Money and the Science of Deception
A book that aims to opens readers’ eyes to the fact-bending methods corporations employ to make profit
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The Chemical Reaction
Badass chemical engineer Jaqueline Silver’s second outing has it all: explosives, villains and periodic table-based code cracking
