All Books articles – Page 3
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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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Review
The Quantum Matrix: Henry Bar’s Perilous Struggle for Quantum Coherence
Quantum mechanics in a creative comic form
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Review
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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Review
What makes a good children’s science book?
Three authors on what it takes to write for young readers
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Review
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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Review
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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Review
Toxic: A History of Nerve Agents, From Nazi Germany to Putin’s Russia
A comprehensive and timely book covering events from 1931 to 2018
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Review
Biography of Resistance: The Epic Battle Between People and Pathogens
A book illustrating a global health threat more daunting than Covid-19: growing antibiotic resistance
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Review
Giving the Devil his Due: Reflections of a Scientific Humanist
‘The counter to bad ideas is good ideas. The rebuttal to pseudoscience is better science.’
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Podcast
Book club – Written in Bone
From the horrific to the absurd, forensic anthropologist Sue Black’s new book is a true pageturner
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Review
Written in Bone: Hidden Stories in What We Leave Behind
A forensic anthropology pageturner filled with cases ranging from historic excavations to recent murder investigations
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Review
Spinach on The Ceiling: The Multifaceted Life of a Theoretical Chemist
Martin Karplus’ autobiography offers deep insights into his scientific work but few personal touches
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Review
Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century
Accounts of grief and joy, independence and interdependence, challenge and transformative creativity
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Podcast
Book club – The End of Everything
It’s the end times for our universe with five scenarios that of how it might meet its ultimate demise
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Review
The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking)
Universe-ending scenarios made to fit our tiny human minds
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Review
Hot Molecules, Cold Electrons
A journey through history and science that lets readers to work out their maths muscles
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Review
What Stars are Made of: The Life of Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
Remarkable insights into the life and work of the world’s first astrochemist
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Review
Alien Oceans: The Search for Life in the Depths of Space
A Nasa scientist’s search for unusual ecosystems – in the depths of our own oceans and much further afield