All Books articles – Page 11
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ReviewThe salt fix: why the experts got it all wrong and how eating more might save your life
A book with a controversial message. But Yuandi Li asks if it’s too good to be true
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ReviewMore molecules of murder
Aurora Walshe reviews a book that walks the line between morbid and fascinating
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ReviewThe secret science of superheroes
Aurora Walshe reviews a book that will make you laugh like an evil genius
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ReviewAdapt: how we can learn from nature’s strangest inventions
Laura Fisher reviews a tale of bio-inspired technology
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ReviewNot a scientist: how politicians mistake, misrepresent, and utterly mangle science
A book that looks critically at the way science is treated by policymakers, reviewed by Susan Vickers
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ReviewIs the universe a hologram? Scientists answer the most provocative questions
From Nobel chemists pondering politics to computer scientists musing on Plato
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ReviewScale: the universal laws of life and death in organisms, cities and companies
Geoffrey West’s book outlines his research on the maths behind complex systems of all kinds
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ReviewSoonish: Emerging technologies that will improve and/or ruin everything
A look at what could happen in the near-ish future
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ReviewAnd then you’re dead: what really happens if you get swallowed by a whale, are shot from a cannon, or go barreling over Niagara
Katrina Krämer reviews a collection of unusual, impossible and amusing death scenarios
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ReviewThe digital mind: how science is redefining humanity
What will be the consequences for society when brains and computers become indistinguishable?
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ReviewMass: the quest to understand matter from Greek atoms to quantum fields
A book on quantum theory best approached by those with an elastic mind
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ReviewThe genome factor: what the social genomics revolution reveals about ourselves, our history and the future
Exploring the use of genetics in social policy
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ReviewThe angry chef: bad science and the truth about healthy eating
Tackling myths about food and nutrition
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ReviewCommon sense, the Turing test, and the quest for real AI
To produce thinking machines – or even just machines that we think are thinking – we first need to understand exactly how we think.
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ReviewWhich yet survive: impressions of friends, family and encounters
Memoirs of travelling chemist John Mills
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ReviewInferior: how science got women wrong – and the new research that’s rewriting the story
An exploration of research into gender differences
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ReviewA crack in creation: the new power to control evolution
How studying bacterial immunity led to the development of Crispr
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ReviewSex, lies, and brain scans: how fMRI reveals what really goes on in our minds
Can neuroscientists can use functional magnetic resonance imaging to read minds?