All Books articles – Page 5
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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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Smoke & 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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Book Club – Smoke & Mirrors by Gemma Milne
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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Frankissstein: 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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Letters from an Astrophysicist
A collection of two decades-worth of correspondences, this book reveals humanity’s fascination with the stars
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Ingredients: 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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Podcast
Book Club – Ingredients by George Zaidan
We discuss George Zaidan’s Ingredients, a book that promises to make chemistry more fun than Hogwarts
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The 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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Traveling 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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Rebel 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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Podcast
Book Club – Say Why to Drugs by Suzi Gage
We discuss Suzi Gage’s comprehensive look at the science behind recreational drugs – from caffeine to ketamine
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Say 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
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Scientifica Historica: How the World’s Great Science Books Chart the History of Knowledge
A book about books by veteran science communicator Brian Clegg
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Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction
A mixture of anecdote, opinion and science from an author who turned her former addiction into the topic of her neurobiology research
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The Fugitive Chemist: From a War Zone to Life-saving Research
A true story of perseverance, love and science
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Podcast
Book Club – You Look Like a Thing and I Love You by Janelle Shane
We talk about Janelle Shane’s dive into the depths of AI weirdness
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You Look Like a Thing and I Love You: How Artificial Intelligence Works and Why It’s Making the World a Weirder Place
From giraffes to strange pickup lines, this delightful and often laugh-out-loud book will help anyone understand AI better
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The Life Scientific: Inventors
From the geneticist who cloned Dolly the sheep to the inventor of the battery bag, this book delves into the lives and ambitions of Britain’s trailblazing scientists
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Science in Moscow: Memorials of a Research Empire
A book cataloguing the monuments to Russia’s scientific past
