All Books articles – Page 11
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Not a scientist: how politicians mistake, misrepresent, and utterly mangle science
A book that looks critically at the way science is treated by policymakers, reviewed by Susan Vickers
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Is the universe a hologram? Scientists answer the most provocative questions
From Nobel chemists pondering politics to computer scientists musing on Plato
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Scale: the universal laws of life and death in organisms, cities and companies
Geoffrey West’s book outlines his research on the maths behind complex systems of all kinds
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Soonish: Emerging technologies that will improve and/or ruin everything
A look at what could happen in the near-ish future
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And then you’re dead: what really happens if you get swallowed by a whale, are shot from a cannon, or go barreling over Niagara
Katrina Krämer reviews a collection of unusual, impossible and amusing death scenarios
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The digital mind: how science is redefining humanity
What will be the consequences for society when brains and computers become indistinguishable?
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Mass: the quest to understand matter from Greek atoms to quantum fields
A book on quantum theory best approached by those with an elastic mind
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The genome factor: what the social genomics revolution reveals about ourselves, our history and the future
Exploring the use of genetics in social policy
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The angry chef: bad science and the truth about healthy eating
Tackling myths about food and nutrition
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Common sense, the Turing test, and the quest for real AI
To produce thinking machines – or even just machines that we think are thinking – we first need to understand exactly how we think.
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Which yet survive: impressions of friends, family and encounters
Memoirs of travelling chemist John Mills
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Inferior: how science got women wrong – and the new research that’s rewriting the story
An exploration of research into gender differences
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A crack in creation: the new power to control evolution
How studying bacterial immunity led to the development of Crispr
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Sex, lies, and brain scans: how fMRI reveals what really goes on in our minds
Can neuroscientists can use functional magnetic resonance imaging to read minds?
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Organic chemistry: a very short introduction
A beginner’s guide to one of the most exciting areas of modern science
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The weathermen: their story
A book that explores humanity’s fascination with the weather, and our attempts to predict the seemingly unpredictable
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Introducing epigenetics: a graphic guide
The ins and outs of epigenetics explained with the help of comic strips