All Books articles – Page 13
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ReviewThe imagineers of war
A history of the Pentagon’s infamous Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
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ReviewThe death of expertise: the campaign against established knowledge and why it matters
Why are people getting sick of experts?
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ReviewYour brain is a time machine: the neuroscience and physics of time
A book for people with more than a passing interest in time
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ReviewToxic exposures: mustard gas and the health consequences of world war II in the United States
An insight into the murky world of chemical warfare
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Feature200 years of Gmelin’s handbook
2017 marks 200 years since Leopold Gmelin first published his influential handbook – and it’s still going strong, as Mike Sutton discovers
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ReviewA tale of seven scientists and a new philosophy of science
Eric Scerri proposes that science has evolved like a biological organism rather than in small steps or giant leaps
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ReviewBring back the king: the new science of de-extinction
How and why could scientists resurrect long-dead species?
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ReviewOutbreak! 50 tales of epidemics that terrorized the world
A tour of history’s most devastating diseases
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ReviewWisdom of the Martians of science: in their own words with commentaries
The stories of John von Neumann, Theodor von Kármán, Leo Szilárd, Eugene Wigner and Edward Teller
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ReviewStalin and the scientists: a history of triumph and tragedy 1905–1953
Scientific life in the Soviet Union
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ReviewWhy icebergs float: exploring science in everyday life
Fernando Gomollón-Bel sets sail on a journey to discover why icebergs float