Neurodivergent author Camilla Pang’s Explaining Humans wins Royal Society prize
The youngest ever winner of the prestigious award used science to compile a ‘manual for humans’
September 2019
'Brilliant exposé' of gender data gap wins Royal Society science book prize
Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez, which reveals bias towards men in measures of human life, hailed as vital work
October 2018
Myth-busting study of teenage brains wins Royal Society prize
Inventing Ourselves by Sarah-Jayne Blakemore wins £25,000 prize with investigation praised by judges as ‘truly a book that everyone should read’
November 2017
Robert Winston wins fourth Royal Society young people's book prize
TV academic’s Home Lab, a collection of scientific experiments that can be carried out at home, won over jury of young readers
September 2017
Testosterone Rex triumphs as Royal Society science book of the year
Psychologist Cordelia Fine’s dissection of the myths that sustain assumptions about sexual difference acclaimed by judges as ‘a cracking critique’
July 2017
'I was hooked for life': science writers on the books that inspired them
Brian Cox, Garry Kasparov, Gaia Vince and other stars of science writing pick the books that fired their imaginations
November 2016
Royal Society's young people's prize goes to 'well cool' pop-up book
How Machines Work by David Macaulay is praised by school-age judges for story of the mechanics used by a sloth to escape his zoo
September 2016
Head quarters
When it comes to winning book prizes, gender has nothing to do with it
Adam Rutherford
Books blog
Why have women finally started winning science book prizes?
Alexander von Humboldt biography wins Royal Society science book prize
The Hunt for Vulcan by Thomas Levenson review - Newton, Einstein and the invisible planet
August 2016
Bill Bryson hails 'thrilling' Royal Society science book prize shortlist
Author of A Short History of Nearly Everything, chairing this year’s judges, says finalists are ‘as interesting, useful and accessible as any writing you will find in any genre’
September 2015
The wild beauty of a threatened world – in pictures
The Guardian Books podcast
Gaia Vince, Oliver Morton and the verdict on Morrissey – books podcast
Science book club
Top science book prize won by woman for first time
Science book club
Adventures in the Anthropocene by Gaia Vince – review
August 2015
Royal Society Winton prize 2015 shortlist announced
‘The best science writers can move and thrill us just as much as Austen or Dickens’, said judge Sarah Waters when announcing the shortlist
November 2014
Science book club
Royal Society books shortlist: Seven Elements That Have Changed the World by John Browne – review
Ian Sample: Carnegie and Rockefeller feature in this engaging history of how the use of natural resources has underpinned greed and dramatic industrial development
Science Weekly
Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books - podcast
The best popular science book of the year, Rosetta's moment in space and Cern's new leader
Science book club
Royal Society books shortlist: Gulp by Mary Roach – review
Nicola Davis: An alimentary voyage packed full of fun factoids shines a light on the fate of food inside us
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