Fiction is there to drive us out of our heads, and science fiction even more so: it makes the wildest notions seem pressingly ...

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Oxford University Press; £9.99 James Lovelock, an English scientist, devoted the second half of his long life to exploring the idea of Gaia: that the Earth and the life that evolved on it worked in ...

From a deep dive on a fatal space shuttle disaster to a study of a dozen iconic trees, these are our favorite titles this year Joe Spring, Riley Black, Shi En Kim, Dan Falk, Christian Elliott and ...

It’s that time of the year when you’re making your list, checking it twice, for gifts that spark a love of science for the kids in your life. Ira talks with Mahnaz Dar, young readers’ editor at Kirkus ...

Tiffany Taylor, professor of microbial ecology and evolution at the University of Bath in the U.K., recommends the books that shaped her career and her outlook on life. When you purchase through links ...

Best-selling writer Bill Bryson has “interrupted” his retirement to update A Short History of Nearly Everything.