Book Review: The First Domestication
/The ancient partnership between humans and canines is the subject of a thorough new volume of research
Read MoreBook Review: The Friendly Orange Glow
/A tremendously involving narrative history of a forgotten chapter in Internet history
Read MoreBook Review: James Conant, Warrior Scientist
/US weapons-making scientist in two world wars and a path-making president of Harvard James Conant gets a generous biography, written by his granddaughter.
Read MoreBook Review: How the Zebra Got Its Stripes
/Popular YouTube sensation Léo Grasset imports his brand of easygoing biology lessons to the pages of a slim book.
Read MoreOf Trowels and Temples
/Archaeology holds the key to 99% of the human past. But how many people really understand it? A new book by archaeologist Eric H. Cline attempts to shed some light on what's buried underground.
Read MoreBook Review: The Imagineers of War
/Famed in pop culture, the unconventional geniuses of DARPA were tasked with developing the technology of the future, today. A big new book delves into the history of the Pentagon's think-tank.
Read MoreBook Review: Stalin and the Scientists
/The Soviet Union billed itself as a scientific utopia, and yet, as a tremendously readable new history illustrates, the awkward of marriage of state and science gave rise to a parade of absurdities.
Read MoreBook Review: Homo Deus
/The author of the popular-science hit Sapiens returns with a book that looks not to humanity's distant past but rather to its immediate future.
Read MoreBook Review: Making Faces
/The quintessential human feature - the large, expressive face - gets a thorough and fascinating scientific examination.
Read MoreBook Review: If Our Bodies Could Talk
/A handy new books ranges over the whole breadth of human aches and pains and losses and gains - and provides the science behind it all.
Read MoreBook Review: I Contain Multitudes
/If who we are includes the multitudes of microscopic organisms that we house and feed, which in turn help regulate our immunity and sculpt our destinies, then what constitutes the individual?
Read MoreWrithing Bounty
/A gruesomely fascinating new book looks at the weird and unsettling phenomenon of venom in animal kingdom. Justin Hickey reviews.
Read MoreBook Review: Deepwater Horizon
/The explosion, fire, sinking, and oil spill of the Deepwater Horizon back in 2010 gets a definitive scholarly analysis.
Read MoreSingle Occupancy, Lots of Sunlight, Water Included
/For a century, humans have been searching for any sign of extraterrestrial life, intelligent or otherwise. A new book tells the story of that quest - and keeps its geeky hope alive.
Read MoreBook Review: ADHD Nation
/A hard-hitting new book exposes the widespread misdiagnosis of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Read MoreSuffer the Little Children
/According to a new book, not only did God design life, but deep down inside, we all know it. Steve Donoghue remains unconverted.
Read MoreBook Review: The Gene
/A generous new book describes the history - and the momentous potential - of genetic research
Read MoreLet's All Meet at the Mahalalel Mall
/A thorough and even-handed new book gives readers a tour of the "Creation Museum" in Kentucky - and warns not to dismiss its dangers too readily.
Read MoreBook Review: The Next Pandemic
/A lively account of life on the front lines in the fight against the world's worst diseases.
Read MoreBook Review: Eruption
/Nearly 40 years ago, Washington State's Mount St. Helens volcano erupted, killing 57 people and spewing hundreds of tons of molten ash into the atmosphere. A gripping new book tells the story.
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