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Science book club

Lovers of science lit are invited to join Tim Radford in reading or re-reading a classic of popular science, which is then thrown open to everyone for discussion

24 September 2015

  • Adventures in the Anthropocene: A Journey to the Heart of the Planet we Made by Gaia Vince.

    Top science book prize won by woman for first time

    Adventures in the Anthropocene, a study of human plundering of Earth’s resources, makes Gaia Vince first female outright winner of Royal Society Winton prize in award’s 28-year history

23 September 2015

  • Clearing and drainage of peat forests in Pulau Padang, Sumatra, Indonesia.

    Adventures in the Anthropocene by Gaia Vince – review

    Gaia Vince’s ambitious, all-embracing, compelling journey holds a mirror up to humanity’s epoch to reveal all we have destroyed, but may yet be able to save

26 February 2015

  • A selection of beetles lay on styrofoam for the Institute for Biodiversity, a reseach organization in Hitoy-Cerere Biological Reserve, Costa Rica, 1993.

    In the Beat of a Heart by John Whitfield – review

    A book that beautifully explores the astonishing variety and complexity of life iterated across the species in an attempt to answer the biggest question of all: why is life the way it is?

10 November 2014

  • A spool of gold wire is pictured at Austrian gold bullion factory Oegussa on October 8, 2008 in Vienna. Oegussa announced on October 6, 2008 that it has increased its production tenfold, as the global financial crisis pushes investors toward a precious metal seen as a safe haven during economic turmoil. Demand is particularly high for bars of 50 grams to one kilogram since gold is tax free for transactions of less than 15,000 euros (20,000 dollars), Oegussa said. AFP PHOTO/JOE KLAMAR (Photo credit should read JOE KLAMAR/AFP/Getty Images)HORIZONTAL

    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

7 November 2014

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    Royal Society books shortlist: Cancer Chronicles by George Johnson – review

    Robin McKie: A life-affirming and reassuring analysis that treats cancer as a subject of study for the natural historian and social scientist

6 November 2014

  • Gourmet feast food

    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

5 November 2014

  • Albert Einstein:

    Royal Society books shortlist: The Perfect Theory by Pedro G Ferreira – review

    Tim Radford looks at Pedro Ferreira’s magical tour through the history of scientific ideas

4 November 2014

  • Samurai sword

    Royal Society books shortlist: Stuff Matters by Mark Miodownik – review

    James Kingsland: From chocolate to Samurai swords, a fascinating take on the sensory and social dimension of materials

3 November 2014

  • Portrait of Werner Heisenberg

    Royal Society books shortlist: Serving the Reich by Philip Ball – review

    In the first in a series on nominees for the 2014 Royal Society Winton prize for science books Tim Radford reviews Philip Ball on the moral dilemmas of physicists who stayed in Germany under Hitler

19 September 2014

  • Ice crystals on a window pane

    Faith and Wisdom in Science by Tom McLeish, review – rich and discursive

    Tim Radford: McLeish doesn’t buy the argument that religion is about turning untested belief into truth. Science, he points out, also makes claims that turn out to be false

15 May 2014

  • Charles Darwin

    Science: A Four Thousand Year History review – a subversive pleasure

    Tim Radford: Patricia Fara's history of science contains all the usual suspects, but they don't all emerge as heroes. Even Darwin gets a kicking

6 March 2014

  • Chemistry: creating test tube evolution

    The Last Alchemist in Paris, book review: curious tales of chemistry

    Tim Radford: From an Agatha Christie plot to a squib by George Bernard Shaw, the stories are fascinating. It's a pity there isn't space to tell some of them properly

16 January 2014

  • The face of Tutankhamun

    The Shadow King, by Jo Marchant – book review

    Tim Radford: This hugely enjoyable tale of Tutankhamun's afterlife evokes a cavalcade of grave robbers, crooks, showmen and scientists

23 November 2013

  • The axolotl … a 'disconcertingly human' salamander.

    The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, by Caspar Henderson – review

    There is something lovely about a book that takes on so many disciplines and tackles them with confidence

22 November 2013

  • Man thinking

    Pieces of Light: The New Science of Memory, by Charles Fernyhough – review

    Memory is quirky, selective, fragile and easily fooled. So what's new?

21 November 2013

  • The red-billed buffalo weaver

    Bird Sense: What it's Like to be a Bird, by Tim Birkhead – review

    Bipedal mammals can't really 'know' what it is like to be a penguin, a flamingo or a tropical hummingbird, but we can indeed marvel at the difference

20 November 2013

  • The Large Hadron Collider at Cern

    The Particle at the End of the Universe, by Sean Carroll – review

    The difficulty of trying to explain the hunt for the Higgs boson shows that nature will not be so easily defined

19 November 2013

  • Cave paintings at Lascaux

    Cells to Civilizations, by Enrico Coen – review

    Coen is attempting something few have dared to – you could call it the unification of life, from biochemistry to human creativity

18 November 2013

  • A fisherman holding a fish

    Ocean of Life: How our Seas are Changing, by Callum Roberts – review

    Roberts tells a wonder-filled story of humankind and the sea, including its horrors

2 August 2013

  • Andrew Wiles, the mathematician who solved Fermat's Last Theorem

    Fermat's Last Theorem by Simon Singh – book review

    A boast in the margin of a book is the starting point for a wonderful journey through the history of mathematics, number theory and logic

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