
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
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
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
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
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
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
17 February 2010
The literary critic has been feeding literature to a computer program to see if machines could ever read between the lines
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
13 September 2006
Feeling left out of the social networking revolution? There are many ways you can get involved, so take a look
22 December 2001
7 November 1998