All Books articles – Page 5
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ReviewFramed by a Smoking Gun: The Explosive Life of Colonel B D Shaw
An enchanting memoir of the chemist whose explosive lectures were almost shut down on safety grounds
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ReviewFentanyl, Inc.: How Rogue Chemists are Creating the Deadliest Wave of the Opioid Epidemic
Journalist Ben Westhoff lifts the lid on the biggest drugs crisis to have ever hit the western world
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ReviewDr Space Junk vs The Universe: Archaeology and the Future
Space archaeologist Alice Gorman explores the cultural significance of the things we have left behind
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ReviewThe Alchemy of Us: How Humans and Matter Transformed One Another
A book about world-changing inventions, crammed with fascinating stories you’ve probably never heard of
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PodcastThe Alchemy of Us by Ainissa Ramirez – Book club
Materials scientist Ainissa Ramirez’s new book uncovers the human side of world-changing inventions
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ReviewHandprints on Hubble: An Astronaut’s Story of Invention
An informative book that is more technical account than personal biography
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ReviewWhy Trust Science?
Eloquent, insightful and bold, this book is a must-read in our post-truth time
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ReviewFrom Science Fiction to Science Fact: How Writers of the Past Invented Our Present
An enjoyable exploration of the parallels between science fiction and science as long as you don’t expect a definite proof of how how sci-fi created the future
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ReviewTV series: Unnatural Selection
From biohackers to malaria-fighting mosquitos, this Netflix documentary looks at the powerful yet controversial technology of genetic engineering
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ReviewSmoke & Mirrors: How Hype Obscures the Future and How to See Past It
Gemma Milne explores how hype has influenced nine different areas of science and technology, from cancer treatments to quantum computers
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PodcastSmoke & Mirrors by Gemma Milne – Book club
Science journalist Gemma Milne’s first book promises to be a guide on how to recognise hype and how to cut through it
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ReviewFrankissstein: A Love Story
Like a modern-day rollercoaster ride through Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, this novel is an exploration of the scientific community’s incremental crawl towards evolutionary perfection
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ReviewLetters from an Astrophysicist
A collection of two decades-worth of correspondences, this book reveals humanity’s fascination with the stars
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ReviewIngredients: The Strange Chemistry of What We Put In Us and On Us
George Zaidan’s first book sets out to disentangle the confusing – and often conflicting – advice surrounding everyday items from processed food to sunscreen and beyond.
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PodcastIngredients by George Zaidan – Book club
We discuss George Zaidan’s Ingredients, a book that promises to make chemistry more fun than Hogwarts
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ReviewThe Universe: A Travel Guide
This book covers every inch of our known universe, from planets and their moons, to asteroids, comets, dwarf planets, exoplanets, stellar objects and the galaxies beyond
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ReviewTraveling with the Atom: A Scientific Guide to Europe and Beyond
Use this book to plot visits across Europe to the homesteads, graveyards, laboratories, apartments, abbeys and castles of your chemistry heroes
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ReviewRebel Star: Our Quest to Solve the Great Mysteries of the Sun
An absorbing read about the history of our investigation of the sun and the scientists who made breakthrough discoveries
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PodcastSay Why to Drugs by Suzi Gage – Book club
We discuss Suzi Gage’s comprehensive look at the science behind recreational drugs – from caffeine to ketamine
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ReviewSay Why to Drugs: Everything You Need to Know About the Drugs We Take and Why We Get High
From discussing short- and long-term effects to drug mythbusting, this book is rich with easy-to-follow information about the effects recreational drugs can have on us and the risks associated with each of them