All Books articles – Page 9
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Review
Catching Stardust: Comets, Asteroids and the Birth of the Solar System
Revealing the mysteries of space, one mote of dust at a time
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Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy
What went wrong on the 26 April 1986 disaster and what continued to go wrong in the days, weeks and years that followed
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Superhuman: Life at the Extremes of Mental & Physical Ability
Meet the people at the peak of their powers
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At Least Know This: Essential science to enhance your life
Author Guy Harrison unpicks the complex answers to simple questions
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Review
X and Why: The rules of attraction: why gender still matters
Megan McGregor reviews a book that sets out to explain the unescapable role gender has in our lives
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Podcast
Book Club – The Beautiful Cure
Immunologist Daniel Davis reveals the complexities of the human immune system
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Review
The Beautiful Cure: Harnessing your body's natural defences
The human body’s response to disease is fiendishly complex but endlessly fascinating
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Review
All that remains: a life in death
Forensic anthropologist Sue black shares her fascination with anatomy and determination to help the loved ones of those that die
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Review
The space barons: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the quest to colonize the cosmos
A book that aims to take readers into the lives and minds of two of the most powerful men in the world
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Review
Unthinkable: an extraordinary journey through the world’s strangest brains
A book that tells the stories of people who experience reality in extraordinary ways
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Review
Beyond weird: why everything you thought you knew about quantum physics is different
Philip Ball sets himself the task of explaining quantum mechanics
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Burning planet: the story of fire through time
Andrew C Scott’s book charts the natural history of wildfire and its ability to provide clues to events on Earth
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Review
Forgotten women: the scientists
Philippa Matthews reviews a book looking to uncover the lost histories of women whose achievements have been left out of the textbooks
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Review
Conjuring the universe: the origins of the laws of nature
Peter Atkins’ latest book is an ’elegant love letter’ to the simplicity and beauty of the mathematics that govern our universe
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Review
The many lives of carbon
Dag Olav Hessen leaves no stone - or diamond - unturned in his account of element six
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Opinion
The chemistry that inspired H.G. Wells
How the science fiction author borrowed real science to create unreal worlds
