Bookshelf; Holiday Gift Books: Science and Nature Reading can be an experiment, a flight among the stars or even a plunge into a black hole.

In his acclaimed new book, Atlantic science writer Ed Yong takes readers on a Ms. Frizzle-meets-Walt-Whitman-esque journey to illuminate a strange new world composed of trillions of majestic microbes.

As we close out the year, the SciFri Book Club will read The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2023, edited by Carl Zimmer with Jaime Green. The essays in this year’s Best American Science and ...

The Joy of Sweat: The Strange Science of Perspiration, by Sarah Everts. We are all sweating, at least a little, all the time. That’s a good thing. For one thing, sweat keeps our hot-running ...

This August, the SciFri Book Club is reading The Invention of Nature: Alexander Von Humboldt’s New World by Andrea Wulf. Alexander von Humboldt, the 19th century German naturalist and polymath, ...

How to write science books ... Cole reveals how clarity and colour can introduce even very young children to science. Nature 464, 36 (4 March 2010) doi:10.1038/464036a ...

Nature's Nether Regions: What the Sex Lives of Bugs, Birds and Beasts Tell Us about Evolution, Biodiversity, and Ourselves by Menno Schilthuizen. Viking, 2014 The science of genitals is a ...

The Royal Society's annual science book prize has been awarded to Andrea Wulf for her biography of Alexander von Humboldt, a pioneering explorer and naturalist.. The 29th annual Royal Society ...

THE SOCIAL GENOME: The New Science of Nature and Nurture, by Dalton Conley THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE HUMAN EMPIRE: Why Our Species Is on the Edge of Extinction, by Henry Gee ...