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
Other minds and cryptominds, from babies to robots to God
20 April 2016
The Mind Club is a witty, insightful guide to other minds, rounded off with smart thinking about thinking in an age of neuroscience
Next year in books: CultureLab's choicest reads for 2016
30 December 2015
From state-of-the art views on cosmology and human morality, to radically rethinking parenthood and gender inequality, get ready to curl up with some great books
Eye of the Beholder: Life through the camera obscura
31 March 2015
Both 17th-century artist Vermeer and scientist van Leeuwenhoek made pioneering use of optics. A joint biography shows how they changed our world view
Flights of fancy: An enchanting history of ornithology
12 February 2014
The excellent Ten Thousand Birds takes us from the obsessive bird collectors of Darwin's time to the fully fledged scientists of today
How the cold war spawned the environmental movement
5 June 2013
In Arming Mother Nature, Jacob Darwin Hamblin argues that environmentalism is rooted in cold war plans to abuse nature for military ends
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
