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NewsRapping atmospheric scientists scoop Dance Your PhD award
Computational research trio spit rhymes about cloud condensation nuclei
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Black, Brown, Bruised: How Racialised Stem Education Stifles Innovation
These stories and case studies of both conscious and unconscious bias are a must-read for every academic
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Doomsday Book: The Science Behind Humanity’s Greatest Threats
A great pick for anyone looking for intriguing solutions to global challenges present and future – as long as you’re okay with a bit of doom and gloom
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Robots in Space: The Secret Lives of Our Planetary Explorers
The fantastic space adventures of Perseverance and its cousins
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Ice: Tales from a Disappearing World
What is it like to do research in a remote part of Greenland
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The Poison Trials: Wonder Drugs, Experiment, and the Battle for Authority in Renaissance Science
An extremely well-researched monograph containing stories that bear an eerie resemblance to today’s politicised clinical trials
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Black Hole Survival Guide
Like a brain-twisting introductory physics lecture, but in the best way
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Never Mind the B#ll*cks, Here’s the Science: A Scientist’s Guide to the Biggest Challenges Facing our Species Today
Your punk rock guide to science
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Film: Forgotten Genius
The story of a Black chemist’s incredible scientific accomplishments in the face of almost insurmountable obstacles in early 20th century US
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How Bad Are Bananas? The Carbon Footprint of Everything
What’s the climate impact of a Google search, a return trip from London to Hong Kong or having a child?
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Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Futures
Like a walk in the forest accompanied by an expert biologist
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Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood
20 years after it was first published, Oliver Sacks’ memoir remains a popular chemistry classic – and for good reason
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The Quantum Matrix: Henry Bar’s Perilous Struggle for Quantum Coherence
Quantum mechanics in a creative comic form
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Unfit for Purpose: When Human Evolution Collides with the Modern World
A friendly sort of commiseration that looks at all the ways our primitive bodies grapple with living a modern lifestyle
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What makes a good children’s science book?
Three authors on what it takes to write for young readers
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Billion 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
