All Review articles – Page 4
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ReviewGame: Craft Elements
A rare example of a science based puzzler that focuses on real-world complexity
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ReviewWhy Trust Science?
Eloquent, insightful and bold, this book is a must-read in our post-truth time
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ReviewFilm: The Ball Method
An impressive short film about early 20th century chemist Alice Ball whose groundbreaking scientific contributions were only recently recognised
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ReviewFrom Science Fiction to Science Fact: How Writers of the Past Invented Our Present
An enjoyable exploration of the parallels between science fiction and science as long as you don’t expect a definite proof of how how sci-fi created the future
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ReviewTV series: Unnatural Selection
From biohackers to malaria-fighting mosquitos, this Netflix documentary looks at the powerful yet controversial technology of genetic engineering
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ReviewSmoke & Mirrors: How Hype Obscures the Future and How to See Past It
Gemma Milne explores how hype has influenced nine different areas of science and technology, from cancer treatments to quantum computers
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ReviewFrankissstein: A Love Story
Like a modern-day rollercoaster ride through Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, this novel is an exploration of the scientific community’s incremental crawl towards evolutionary perfection
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ReviewLetters from an Astrophysicist
A collection of two decades-worth of correspondences, this book reveals humanity’s fascination with the stars
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ReviewFilm: Human Nature
The story of Crispr-Cas9 gene editing technology, and where it could and should take humanity
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ReviewIngredients: The Strange Chemistry of What We Put In Us and On Us
George Zaidan’s first book sets out to disentangle the confusing – and often conflicting – advice surrounding everyday items from processed food to sunscreen and beyond.
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ReviewThe Universe: A Travel Guide
This book covers every inch of our known universe, from planets and their moons, to asteroids, comets, dwarf planets, exoplanets, stellar objects and the galaxies beyond
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ReviewTraveling with the Atom: A Scientific Guide to Europe and Beyond
Use this book to plot visits across Europe to the homesteads, graveyards, laboratories, apartments, abbeys and castles of your chemistry heroes
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ReviewFilm: Radioactive
Based on a graphic novel, this film is both a profile of Marie Curie and a celebration of her discovery, the phenomenon of radioactivity
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ReviewRebel Star: Our Quest to Solve the Great Mysteries of the Sun
An absorbing read about the history of our investigation of the sun and the scientists who made breakthrough discoveries
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ReviewFilm: Dark Waters
A film that charts lawyer Rob Billot’s two-decade battle to bring DuPont to account for illnesses of thousands of class action plaintiffs due to exposure to a toxic surfactant
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ReviewSay Why to Drugs: Everything You Need to Know About the Drugs We Take and Why We Get High
From discussing short- and long-term effects to drug mythbusting, this book is rich with easy-to-follow information about the effects recreational drugs can have on us and the risks associated with each of them
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ReviewScientifica Historica: How the World’s Great Science Books Chart the History of Knowledge
A book about books by veteran science communicator Brian Clegg
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ReviewNever Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction
A mixture of anecdote, opinion and science from an author who turned her former addiction into the topic of her neurobiology research
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ReviewThe Fugitive Chemist: From a War Zone to Life-saving Research
A true story of perseverance, love and science