Science, Mathematics & Technology

It is only a slight exaggeration to say that the British mathematician Alan Turing (1912-1954) saved the Allies from the Nazis, invented the comput...

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

An unsparing analysis of class power and computerisation, Cyber-Proletariat shows us the dark-side of the information revolution. From Coltan mines...

Conflict over information has become a central part of modern politics and culture. The sites of struggle are numerous, the actors beyond count. Cu...

Everything we need to know about metadata, the usually invisible infrastructure for information with which we interact every day. When "metadata" b...

Disease is the true serial killer of human history: the horrors of bubonic plague, cholera, syphilis, smallpox, tuberculosis and the like have clai...

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...

A guided tour through the Internet of Things, a networked world of connected devices, objects, and people that is changing the way we live and work...

For too long the Neanderthals have been seen as dim-witted evolutionary dead-enders who looked and behaved completely differently from us, but in r...

The idea of technological singularity, and what it would mean if ordinary human intelligence were enhanced or overtaken by artificial intelligence....

This is the complete guide to exploring the fascinating world of maths you were never told about at school. Stand-up comedian and mathematician Mat...

Today it is common knowledge that the dinosaurs were wiped out by a meteorite impact 65 million years ago that killed half of all species then livi...