All Books articles – Page 2
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PodcastBook club – The Disordered Cosmos by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
Exposing how racism and sexism shapes science
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Review
Nose Dive: A Field Guide to the World’s Smells
A must-read for chemists and anyone passionate about nature, food, drinks and cooking
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Review
Sapiens – A Graphic History: The Birth of Humankind
Reimagining Yuval Noah Harari’s bestseller as an approachable graphic novel
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Review
The Doctor Who Fooled the World: Andrew Wakefield’s War on Vaccines
The story of the man who created the myth that a vaccine causes autism
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Podcast
Book club – Never Mind the B#ll*cks, Here’s the Science by Luke O’Neill
Serious punk rock science
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Review
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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Review
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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Review
Robots in Space: The Secret Lives of Our Planetary Explorers
The fantastic space adventures of Perseverance and its cousins
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Review
Ice: Tales from a Disappearing World
What is it like to do research in a remote part of Greenland
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Careers
The facts of being a fiction-writing chemist
Meet the chemists making creative use of their scientific skills
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Review
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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Podcast
Book club – The Poison Trials by Alisha Rankin
Clinical trials have come a long way since the 16th century
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Review
Black Hole Survival Guide
Like a brain-twisting introductory physics lecture, but in the best way
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Review
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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Review
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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Review
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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Review
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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Podcast
Book club – Uncle Tungsten by Oliver Sacks
We celebrate 20 years of a popular chemistry classic – written by neurologist
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The Quantum Matrix: Henry Bar’s Perilous Struggle for Quantum Coherence
Quantum mechanics in a creative comic form
