New book is an illuminating but flawed look at the impact of emoji
16 July 2025
Emoji add a new depth to communications, but what of their cultural impact? Keith Houston's Face with Tears of Joy offers some answers
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A new book reveals the deep flaws in our natural history museums
25 June 2025
Natural history museums teach us about our world, but they aren’t telling us the whole story, writes curator Jack Ashby in Nature's Memory
Explore what shaped Bill Gates in part one of his autobiography
5 February 2025
A driven teenager up nights working on computer schemes. Could this be Bill Gates? Chris Stokel-Walker reads the much anticipated story of the billionaires's early years, as told by the man himself
Why do we burn more coal and wood than ever, asks a provocative book
6 November 2024
In More and More and More, Jean-Baptiste Fressoz argues that tackling climate change means rethinking our history of energy consumption – and exposing the green transition as a fiction
Forget Hollywood, science has real plans to defend us from asteroids
30 October 2024
Forget Armageddon-sized rocks, just one of 25,000 smaller asteroids could destroy a city on Earth. How to Kill an Asteroid by Robin George Andrew shows how science plans to save the planet
Matt Parker's comic look at trigonometry is a bit heavy on the maths
26 June 2024
Stand-up mathematician Matt Parker's Love Triangle is fast-paced, with nuggets about everything from impossible soccer balls to duck wakes. But it doesn't leave our reviewer understanding trigonometry any better
Game of Edges review: Inside story of how data is transforming sport
16 August 2023
As sport becomes more competitive and more corporate, using data to find that extra edge is vital, says Bruce Schoenfeld in his new book
