Kategorier: Astronomi, rymd och tid Kosmologi och universum Matematik och naturvetenskap Naturvetenskap Populärvetenskap
Har universum några gränser? Hade tiden en början, kan den gå bakåt och kommer den få ett slut? I denna klassiker får komplexa frågor begripliga svar. Med stor berättarglädje djupdyker Stephen Hawking i svarta hål, antimateria, kvantmekanik och Big Bang, och tar läsaren ett steg närmare skapelsens hemligheter. Kosmos :…
The inspiring life stories of leading scientists as heard on BBC Radio 4
A short, practical, timely guide to the tools you need to understand the numbers we read in the news everyday - and how we often get them wrongEvery day, most of us will read or watch something in the news that is based on statistics in some way. Sometimes it'll be obvious - 'X people develop cancer every year' - and…
A radical retelling of the history of science that challenges the Eurocentric narrative. We are told that modern science was invented in Europe, the product of great minds like Nicolaus Copernicus, Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin and Albert Einstein. But this is wrong. The history of science is not, and has never been, a…
The Four Horsemen - War, Pestilence, Famine and Death - first appeared in the Book of Revelations a thousand years ago, but they continue to track us in our own time. This original and inspiring study bycelebrated historian Emily Mayhew traces the advances in science, technology and humanitarianism that are enabling us…
RECOMMENDED AS ONE OF THE TIMES' BEST SCIENCE BOOKS OF 2021'With all the talk about testosterone in sex, sports and politics, we need a good explanation of the science and its implications, and this one is outstanding.' STEVEN PINKER, bestselling author of The Blank Slate'There are whole books written about the idea…
The seven fundamental - and surprising - scientific truths of our existence.
En gång i tiden drevs jakten på ett längre liv av äventyrare, alkemister och kvacksalvare. Nu har vetenskapen tagit över stafettpinnen. Det betyder att vi för första gången någonsin står på tröskeln till att kunna knäcka åldringskoden och besvara den uråldriga frågan: Hur får jag ett långt och hälsosamt liv? …
Kategorier: Fysik Kvantfysik (kvantmekanik och kvantfältteori) Matematik och naturvetenskap Naturvetenskap Populärvetenskap
Vad innebär kvantteorin för vår världsbild och uppfattning om vad som är verkligt?Frågan eggade den nya fysikens pionjärer och stod i centrum för de berömda debatterna mellan Albert Einstein och Niels Bohr. Men i takt med att kvantteorins tillämpningar rönte stora framgångar under efterkrigstiden föreföll dess…
Kategorier: Biokemisk teknik Biologi och biovetenskap Bioteknik Biovetenskap Evolution Genteknik Matematik och naturvetenskap Naturvetenskap Populärvetenskap Teknik, ingenjörsvetenskap etc.
För första gången i mänsklighetens historia kan vi nu gå in i våra gener och ändra i deras sammansättning. För sin upptäckt av gensaxen CRISPR belönades biokemiforskaren Jennifer Doudna med Nobelpriset. Genredigeringen innebär stora möjligheter för oss att kunna bota svåra sjukdomar, bekämpa pandemier och få friskare…
Kategorier: Arkeologi Arkeologi: perioder och områden Biologi och biovetenskap Biovetenskap Förhistoriska människor Genetik (ej medicinsk) Genusvetenskap Genusvetenskap: kvinnor och flickor Historia och arkeologi Humanbiologi Matematik och naturvetenskap Naturvetenskap Populärvetenskap Samhälle och kultur: allmänt Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap Sociala grupper
Mycket har hunnit hända inom DNA-forskningen sedan Karin Bojs skrev Augustprisvinnaren Min europeiska familj - de senaste 54 000 åren (2015) och uppföljaren Svenskarna och deras fäder - de senaste 11 000 åren (2016).Bland annat börjar forskare kunna urskilja hur vandringsmönstren har skilt sig åt för Europas fäder och…
The heart-wrenchingly honest new book about life and death from forensic pathologist and bestselling author of UNNATURAL CAUSES, Dr Richard ShepherdA TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR'Deeply insightful. Unflinching' THE TIMES'A finely-crafted detective story' DAILY TELEGRAPH'Enlightening, strangely uplifting'…
Revised Edition with New Afterword from the Author Time #1 Nonfiction Book of the YearFinalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award Over 3 million copies sold in 35 Languages"On the day after humans disappear, nature takes over and immediately begins cleaning house - or houses, that is. Cleans them right off the…
In Rutherford and Fry's comprehensive guidebook, they tell the complete story of the universe and absolutely everything in it - skipping over some of the boring parts. This is a celebration of the weirdness of the cosmos, the strangeness of humans and the fact that amid all the mess, we can somehow make sense of…
The instant Sunday Times bestseller -- a beautiful story of rebellion and scienceShortlisted for the Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize'A triumph. . . We are left in a world that is not disenchanted by science, but even more magical' Financial TimesIn June 1925, twenty-three-year-old Werner Heisenberg, suffering from hay fever, had…
The breakthroughs that have had the most transformative practical impacts, from thermodynamics to the Internet. '[A]n engaging exploration, ending with interesting speculation on the nature of a future 11th day.'Peet Morris, Times Higher EducationDevelopments in physics and physics-based engineering have led to…
Shortlisted for the Royal Society Science Book PrizeBias affects us all, every day of our lives. It shapes how we see each other, and how we are seen in turn. It fuels discrimination on the basis of sex, gender, race, age, class and appearance. It robs organizations of talent, science of breakthroughs, politics of…
Quadratic equations, Pythagoras' theorem, imaginary numbers, and pi - you may remember studying these at school, but did anyone ever explain why? Never fear - bestselling science writer, and your new favourite maths teacher, Michael Brooks, is here to help. In The Maths That Made Us, Brooks reminds us of the wonders of…
A bold, provocative exploration of the tension between our evolutionary history and our modern woes - and what we can do about it We are living through the most prosperous age in all of human history, yet we are listless, divided and miserable. Wealth and comfort are unparalleled, but our political landscape is…
The definitive, deeply reported account of YouTube, the company that upended media, culture, industry, and democracy-by a leading tech journalistAcross the world, people watch more than a billion hours of video on YouTube every day. Every minute, more than five hundred additional hours of footage are uploaded to the…
How do you remember more and forget less? How can you earn more and become more creative just by moving house? And how do you pack a car boot most efficiently? This is your shortcut to the art of the shortcut.Mathematics is full of better ways of thinking, and with over 2,000 years of knowledge to draw on, Oxford…
Picture yourself at a starting point before anything exists - no matter, no cosmos, not even empty space. Your task is to create the universe, but all you have to work with is, quite literally, "nothing." How do you proceed? This is the thought experiment The Big Bang of Numbers invites you into, as an original and…
Introduced by Jim Al-KhaliliCould you surf down an erupting volcano?Why do zebras have stripes?Are you breathing the same air as Leonardo da Vinci?Are there any green mammals?Why do pineapples have spikes?Why do songs get stuck in your head?What happens when black holes collide?Can you extract your DNA?New Scientist…
Right now, you are orbiting a black hole.The Earth goes around the Sun, and the Sun goes around the centre of the Milky Way: a supermassive black hole the strangest and most misunderstood phenomenon in the galaxy.In A Brief History of Black Holes University of Oxford astrophysicist, Dr Becky Smethurst charts the…
Kategorier: Biologi och biovetenskap Biovetenskap Förhistoriska människor Genetik (ej medicinsk) Humanbiologi Matematik och naturvetenskap Naturvetenskap Populärvetenskap
Med den världsberömda genetikern och nobelpristagaren Svante Pääbos forskning har historien om människans ursprung skrivits om från grunden.I Neandertalmänniskan tar Svante Pääbo med läsaren på en spännande resa på jakt efter urgammalt DNA, från undersökningar av fornegyptiska mumier i Uppsala till ett internationellt…
The whole cosmos in your hands, The Universe in Bite-sized Chunks is your one-stop guide to everything you ever wanted to know about space and our place in it.
From gravity to black holes, special relativity to global warming, this authoritative and entertaining book from bestselling author Marcus Chown breaks down complex science into manageable chunks, explaining the one thing you really need to know to get to grips with the subject.Rather than trying to bend your mind…
The adventures of James Bond have thrilled readers since Ian Fleming's novel Casino Royale was published in 1953, and when the movie of Dr No was released in 1962, Bond quickly became the world's favourite secret agent. Science and technology have always been central to the plots that make up the world of Bond, and in…
How do people come to believe in misinformation? How and why does it spread? And what can we do about it? 'In an era increasingly filled with half-truths, fake news, and misinformation, I am not here to tell you what to believe. I want to provide you with a guide to how your brain grapples with matters of fact and…
You may be familiar with the idea of our body's biome - the bacterial fauna that populates our gut and can so profoundly affect our health. In We Are Electric we cross the next frontier of scientific understanding: discover your body's electrome.Every cell in our bodies - bones, skin, nerves, muscle - has a voltage,…
As heard on BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week As seen on Sky Arts Book Club with Elizabeth Day and Andi Oliver An eye-opening account of disability, identity, and how robotics and AI are altering our understanding of what it means to be human - from the bestselling author of Anatomy of a Soldier Harry Parker's life changed…
There are more than 100 billion brain cells in our heads, and every single one represents a fragment of thought and feeling. And yet each cell is a mystery of beauty, with branching, intricate patterns like shattered glass. Richard Wingate has been scrutinizing them for decades, yet he is still moved when he looks at…
Why is -(-1) = 1? Why do odd and even numbers alternate? What's the point of algebra? Is maths even real? From imaginary numbers to the perplexing order of operations we all had drilled into us, Eugenia Cheng - mathematician, writer and woman on a mission to rid the world of maths phobia - brings us maths as we've…
A revelatory and vibrant story of measurement which will make you look at the world around you anew. 'A wildly ambitious book by a formidably talented young writer.' ROBERT MACFARLANE 'Vivid, epic, and full of curiosities. This is a book to delight and fascinate.' TIM HARFORD, bestselling author of How to Make the…
This book teaches in detail how to interpret all features of the hand, not simply the lines of the palm.