Science, Mathematics & Technology

New technologies have always provoked panic about workers being replaced by machines. In the past, such fears have been misplaced, and many economi...

The blueprint for our individuality lies in the 1% of DNA that differs between people. Our intellectual capacity, our introversion or extraversion,...

This is the ultimate master class in modern physics. World-class physicist and father of string theory Leonard Susskind and citizen-scientist Georg...

Could there be a civilization on a mote of dust? How much of your fate have you made? Who cleans the universe? Through more than fifty Koans - plea...

Today Google and Facebook receive 90% of the world's news ad-spending. Amazon takes half of all ecommerce in the US. Google and Apple operating sys...

Human beings, says Lee Smolin, author of The Trouble With Physics, have always had a problem with the boundary between reality and fantasy, confusi...

What makes a bridge wobble when it's not meant to? Billions of dollars mysteriously vanish into thin air? A building rock when its resonant frequen...

AI is the future - but what will that future look like? Will superhuman intelligence be our slave, or become our god? Taking us to the heart of the...

The creator of the Gaia hypothesis and the greatest environmental thinker of our time has produced an astounding new theory about the future of lif...

How did we get from the Big Bang to today's staggering complexity, in which seven billion humans are connected into networks powerful enough to tra...

Part-history of the cosmos, part-intellectual adventure, Our Mathematical Universe travels from the Big Bang to the distant future via parallel wor...

In The Theoretical Minimum, world-class physicist Leonard Susskind provided a brilliant first course in classical mechanics, offering readers not a...

Do space and time truly exist? What is reality made of? Can we understand its deep texture? Scientist Carlo Rovelli has spent his whole life explor...

In the first two books in his wildly popular The Theoretical Minimum series, world-class physicist Leonard Susskind provided a brilliant first cour...

Why do we need Statistics? What do terms like 'dispersion', 'correlation', 'normal distribution' and 'significance' actually mean? How can I learn ...

Acclaimed as the most influential work on evolution written in the last hundred years, The Blind Watchmaker offers an inspiring and accessible intr...

'Correlation does not imply causation.' For decades, this mantra was invoked by scientists in order to avoid taking positions as to whether one thi...

Do we see the world as it truly is? In The Case Against Reality, pioneering cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman says no? we see what we need in orde...

For generations, scientists have struggled to make sense of this fundamental question. Life really does look like magic: even a humble bacterium ac...

Human civilization is on the verge of living beyond Earth. But how will it happen? World-renowned physicist Michio Kaku takes us on a journey to th...

'We are time. We are this space, this clearing opened by the traces of memory inside the connections between our neurons. We are memory. We are nos...

'Creativity is the unique and defining trait of our species; and its ultimate goal, self-understanding,' begins Edward Wilson's sweeping examinatio...

George Dyson's fascinating account of the early years of computers: Turing's Cathedral is the story behind how the PC, iPod, smartphone and almost ...

When exactly did life begin? What really happened during the big bang--and before it? Is the universe expanding? Is dark matter real? Do we live in...

Keats accused Newton of destroying the poetry of the rainbow by explaining the origin of its colours. In this illuminating and provocative book, Ri...