Expressing awe over the wonders of life’s emergence on Earth, the intricate scientific treatise Fermi’s Paradox reframes questions about extraterrestrial intelligence. The question of the existence of intelligent life beyond Earth is... Read More

The thorough scientific manifesto "Truth and Absurdity in Modern Physics" is a refreshing introduction to the opaque features of modern physics and inscrutable controversies in the field. Daniel W. Youngner’s scientific survey "Truth... Read More

An insightful history of a leading ophthalmological company, David R. Guyer’s "Unblinded" charts concerted efforts to improve people’s sight. Eyetech founder David R. Guyer paired with Ian Keldoulis to write "Unblinded", the... Read More

Walter Marsh’s true crime caper "The Butterfly Thief" pieces together several mid-century museum thefts that shook Australia’s leading natural history institutions. In January of 1947, curators at Melbourne’s National Museum of... Read More

Astrobiologist Jon Willis’s "The Pale Blue Data Point" investigates the diverse paths through which scientists have attempted to discover extraterrestrial life. Beginning with the ancient question of the existence of life-forms beyond... Read More

Ripples on the Cosmic Ocean, Dagomar Degroot’s sweeping history of human encounters with the solar system, is an unconventional, moving account of how Earth’s cosmic neighborhood shaped human existence. A mixture of intertwined... Read More

“When it comes to fungi, art and science often overlap,” Maya Jewell Zeller writes, and that is indeed true of her beautiful, beguiling book "The Wonder of Mushrooms". Fungi are curious: More closely related to animals than plants,... Read More

Challenging the popular conception that asteroid impacts caused the extinction of dinosaurs, "The Last Extinction" is Gerta Keller’s reflection on one of the nastiest controversies in the modern history of the earth sciences. Equal... Read More