A new book says the pace of genomic innovation is problematic
24 January 2018
In The Postgenomic Condition, Jenny Reardon lays bare what went wrong with the most promising medicine of the millennium – and greed is only part of her story
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Trophy: Is hunting really the only way to save big game?
10 January 2018
A film on white hunters and landowners offers a strong conservation case for killing Africa's big beasts, but it sidelines local black people who may disagree
The engineer who defeated the wind
14 November 2012
In Wind Wizard, Siobhan Roberts shows how pioneering civil engineer Alan Davenport helped to keep our biggest structures standing in extreme conditions
The art of displaying dead animals
3 August 2011
In The Authentic Animal Dave Madden tours the world of taxidermy, including the guy who killed a leopard with his bare hands
Is reading fiction good for you?
20 July 2011
In his new book, Such Stuff as Dreams, cognitive psychologist and novelist Keith Oatley argues that reading fiction has broad psychological benefits
Inventing modern science over eggs and bacon
9 February 2011
In The Philosophical Breakfast Club, Laura Snyder pins the rise of science as we know it on the weekly meetings of four great 19th-century thinkers
Solve this sci-fi thriller and reap the rewards
22 December 2010
Gruff Davies's The Looking Glass Club questions the nature of reality – and the reader who solves the book's puzzles can win up to £1 million
Jon Adams: The robots' book club
17 February 2010
The literary critic has been feeding literature to a computer program to see if machines could ever read between the lines
Review: Crow Planet by Lyanda Lynn Haupt
2 September 2009
From recognising faces to using cars as nutcrackers, crows are one of the few species that thrive in cities – but their success carries a warning
Review: Alex and Me by Irene Pepperberg
5 November 2008
This impish, intelligent African grey parrot was an admirable bird, says Deborah Blum - sadly the same cannot be said for the book
