Readers are spoiled for choice when it comes to popular science reading this month, with new titles by major names including ...

Science fiction can seem like an intimidating genre for the uninitiated, what with its fantastical tales of advanced technologies, otherworldly beings, and, yes, all that science. But in reality, ...

(Photo illustration by Josep Prat Sorolla / For The Times; book jackets from Little, Brown, Hardie Grant Books and W.W. Norton & Co) Thankfully, we can still turn to our bookshelves — and podcasts — ...

AFTER THE second world war, Leo Szilard, a pioneering nuclear physicist who had worked on the Manhattan Project, decided to move into biology instead: life; not death. But there was a problem. As a ...

The current cultural fascination and frustration with artificial intelligence is nothing new. As far back as the 1921 Czech play R.U.R. — the workers-rights story that first coined the term “robot” — ...

Our favorite titles of the year resurrect overlooked histories and examine how the United States ended up where it is today Science From “experimental archaeology” to the mysterious appeal of ...

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It’s been an uneasy year for science. While there were significant milestones, like breakthroughs in gene editing for rare diseases and novel insights into early human evolution (including fire-making ...