The thought-provoking science book "Faster than Light" unpacks the conceptual riddles surrounding the speed of light with winsome humor. Robert J. Nemiroff’s enlightening popular science book "Faster than Light" probes the mind-bending... Read More

Pandora’s Box is a thought-provoking science book with recommendations for avoiding future pandemics. Geoffrey Newton’s Pandora’s Box is an intriguing scientific exploration of how viruses work and what the world can do to prevent... Read More

Joanne Anton’s "Sexus Botanicus" is an often playful, beautiful science book loaded with fascinating, substantive information about plants’ reproductive lives. Featuring clear, succinct prose and gorgeous color sketches, the book... Read More

Persuasive and thought-provoking, Benjamin Lewin’s "Inside Science" examines how big data is changing biological research. Contemporary scientific methods, Lewin says, are driven by large research teams, aggregated results across... Read More

Martin Stevens’s "Secret Worlds" is a brilliant book on animal perception—the astonishing sensory adaptations that birds, insects, and other creatures evolved for their survival. Humans share five senses with animals; animals have... Read More

Stephen Porder’s science book "Elemental" examines the impact of five elements on Earth and its changing climate. Chronicling billions of years of history through the framework of carbon, nitrogen, hydrogen, oxygen, and phosphorous,... Read More

Belying its modest title, Joshua Winn’s "The Little Book of Exoplanets" is an extraordinary, far-reaching astronomy book that describes the exploration of planets outside our solar system. As this engaging book explains, more than five... Read More

"The Adventures of Grandmasaurus" is an entertaining picture book that shares a smattering of information about dinosaurs. A girl’s grandmother morphs into different dinosaurs in the picture book The Adventures of Grandmasaurus: At the... Read More