All popular science articles
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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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Hollywood Wants to Kill You: The Peculiar Science of Death in the Movies
Your favourite disaster movies turned into case studies for the various ways in which all we are all doomed
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Review
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 – The Chemical Detective
Fiona Erskine combines chemistry and conspiracy in a fast-paced thriller that takes in Chernobyl and Slovenia
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Podcast
Book Club – Superior: The Return of Race Science
How different from each other are we all really? Angela Saini looks at the issues, claims and evidence behind race science
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Podcast
Book Club – The Periodic Table
100 years on, we examine the effect of Primo Levi’s masterpiece The Periodic Table
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Feature
Primo Levi and the other periodic table
Author and chemist Primo Levi was born 100 years ago this July. Philip Ball looks at his chemical and literary legacy – including his books The Periodic Table and If This Is a Man
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Podcast
Book Club – Superheavy: Making and Breaking the Periodic Table
Kit Chapman explores the strange, complex and downright confusing world of superheavy elements
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Podcast
Book Club – Clearing the air
Tim Smedley travels the world to work out why air pollution occurs, and what we can do to solve the problem
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Podcast
Book Club – The truth about fat
‘Angry chef’ Anthony Warner wants you to understand why people really get fat and how society tricks us into blaming each other
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Podcast
Book Club – Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors
Matt Parker uses comedy to explore the unique relationship between humans and maths and how numbers are behind errors large and small
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Podcast
Book Club – Inventing Ourselves
Cognitive neuroscientist Sarah-Jayne Blakemore explores the unique period of brain development that occurs during adolescence
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Review
Festival of the Spoken Nerd: You Can’t Polish a Nerd
Yuandi Li reviews the science stand-up trio’s latest DVD
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Podcast
Book Club – Gene Machine: The Race to Decipher the Secrets of the Ribosome
2009 Nobel prize winner Venki Ramakrishnan takes us on a personal and professional journey to uncover the secrets of the ribosome
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Review
Nodding Off: The Science of Sleep from Cradle to Grave
Alice Gregory’s book explains the purpose, psychology and physiology of sleep at different stages of life
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Review
The Book of Humans: The Story of How We Became Us
Adam Rutherford sets out to explain what it is that sets us apart from other animals
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Review
Hello World: How to be Human in the Age of the Machine
Mathematician Hannah Fry explores the power and limitations of the algorithms that surround us
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Podcast
Book Club – I’m a Joke and So Are You
Comedian Robin Ince explores what makes us human through conversations with fellow comics and scientists whose job it is to understand the human condition
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