All Books articles – Page 17

Review
Atomic – the first war of physics and the secret history of the atom bomb, 1939–49

2016-01-08T00:00:00Z

Arms race
Podcast
Thing Explainer by Randall Munroe – Book club

2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

Our book club podcast considers simple language in science as we discuss Randall Munroe’s new book, Thing explainer.
Review
Christmas gift guide 2015

2015-12-18T00:00:00Z

Our roundup of the books you’ll want this Christmas
Review
I, superorganism – learning to love your inner ecosystem

2015-12-17T00:00:00Z

Microscopic empire
Review
Thing explainer – complicated stuff in simple words

2015-12-16T00:00:00Z

All the small things
Review
50 chemistry ideas you really need to know

2015-12-11T00:00:00Z

Need-to-know basis
Review
Science in Wonderland – the scientific fairy tales of Victorian Britain

2015-12-08T00:00:00Z

Through the looking glass
Review
Why does asparagus make your wee smell?

2015-12-04T00:00:00Z

Pungent prose
Review
Swallow this – serving up the food industry’s darkest secrets

2015-12-01T00:00:00Z

Hard to stomach
Review
Pyrite: a natural history of fool’s gold

2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

All that glitters is not gold
Podcast
Scientific Babel by Michael Gordin – Book club

2015-11-05T00:00:00Z

We probe the nature of scientific language with Michael Gordin’s bestseller, Scientific Babel
Review
Scientific Babel: the language of science from the fall of Latin to the rise of English

2015-11-05T00:00:00Z

Bridging the divide
Review
Chemistry at home

2015-11-05T00:00:00Z

Home comforts
Review
Half-life: the divided life of Bruno Pontecorvo, physicist or spy

2015-10-29T00:00:00Z

Double life?
Review
To explain the world: the discovery of modern science

2015-10-21T00:00:00Z

Scientific ancestry
Review
The water book

2015-10-15T00:00:00Z

A flowing narrative
Review
A is for arsenic: the poisons of Agatha Christie

2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

P is for poison
Podcast
A is for Arsenic by Kathryn Harkup – Book club

2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

In the first of a brand new podcast series, we get together to discuss ‘A is for Arsenic: the poisons of Agatha Christie’
Review
NMR: the toolkit – how pulse sequences work

2015-09-25T00:00:00Z

Tools of the trade
Review
Pericyclic reactions

2015-09-18T00:00:00Z

Cyclical anniversaries