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Illustrator?s signature must be included in all reproductions Carboniferous forest. Illustration of a flooded forest containing primitive plant species and fauna that existed during the Carboniferous period (360 to 286 million years ago). At bottom centre is a Hylonomus reptile. Its prey, a giant dragonfly (Meganeura monyi) is at left. The plants included Lepidodendron, an ancient lycopod also known as a scale tree. The Carboniferous forests gave rise to the coal deposits that fuel industry today.

Gripping account of how plants and animals shaped each other

26 February 2025

Palaeontologist Riley Black is back with a thrilling guide to how animals and plants co-evolved over millennia

NEW YORK - NOVEMBER 09: Traders work the floor of the New York Mercantile Exchange November 9, 2005 in New York City. Following a report that inventories of crude and gasoline grew in the last week, oil prices dropped Wednesday. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

How humans evolved to think about risk may cost Earth dearly

29 January 2025

A provocative new book delves into the way humans – and elephants – evolved to manage risk. We might do better to think more like elephants

Woman in her late 30s reading a book in the mountain cabin, relaxing in the hammock next to the fireplace.

The best popular science books to look forward to in 2025

23 December 2024

Understanding why we think the way we do is a hot topic for many of 2025’s books – that and finding new ways to re-evaluate old “truths”, says Simon Ing

An iconic tram driving along California Street with a motion blur effect

A gripping account of morality shows how we work out right from wrong

28 August 2024

Where do morals come from? In Animals, Robots, Gods, anthropologist Webb Keane argues imagination and differing senses of the world are key to discerning right from wrong

A man is lying in a hammock in the sun, he is reading a book on his digital tablet. The hammock is hanging in a beautiful green forest in Sweden.

The best science non-fiction books of 2024 so far

3 July 2024

Want to save our seas? Make exotic cocktails? Ponder life's meaning? Whatever your plans this July, Simon Ings rounds up the year's best non-fiction so far

Janus Films handout film still: THE BEAST Directed by Bertrand Bonello. The year is 2044: artificial intelligence controls all facets of a stoic society as humans routinely ?erase? their feelings. Hoping to eliminate pain caused by their past-life romances, Gabrielle (Le?a Seydoux) continually falls in love with different incarnations of Louis (George MacKay).

Léa Seydoux and George MacKay dazzle in shocking sci-fi film The Beast

19 June 2024

Bertrand Bonello's twist on a Henry James novella from 1903 may be the most indirect critique of technology ever made. This film is memorable and absolutely terrifying, says Simon Ings

Darkly comic sci-fi chiller sees a pet spider turn fast-growing hunter

22 May 2024

When a spider falls to Earth in an ice storm and is taken in as a pet, what could go right? Think Alien and M3gan – and effortless entertainment

The Last Days of the Dinosaurs review: A must-read reconstruction

20 April 2022

Palaeontologist Riley Black has written an inventive look at the days, years and centuries following the impact of the asteroid that triggered the extinction of about three-quarters of all the species on Earth

Hawaiian Soul review: An inspiring tale of environmental activism

1 December 2021

An uplifting film tells the story of how George Jarrett Helm Jr became a leading voice in a movement for environmental and Indigenous rights in Hawaii

From Interstellar to Hidden Figures: 12 of the best space movies

3 August 2021

Interstellar, Moon, Proxima, Alien, Hidden Figures... From science fiction to biographical drama, does your favourite movie about space make our list?