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You may be familiar with the idea of our body's biome - the bacterial fauna that populates our gut and can so profoundly affect our ...
A dynamic and sweeping history that exposes how humankind's affinity for pesticides made the modern world possible-while also threatening its essential fabric.
For thousands ...
For almost four billion years, microbes had the primordial oceans all to themselves. The stewards of Earth, these organisms transformed the chemistry of our planet ...
A 'remarkable book.' - The New York Times
This fearless, deeply reported book about laboratory accidents asks the haunting question some elite scientists don't want ...
Every animal on Earth begins life as a single cell. From this humble origin, the nascent creature embarks on a risky journey fraught with opportunities ...
'A delightful balance of ideas, inspiration and science' Tristan Gooley, author of The Walker's Guide to Outdoor Clues & Signs
'We can all learn ...
For readers of Bill Bryson, Neil deGrasse Tyson and Siddhartha Mukherjee, a wondrous, wildly ambitious, and vastly entertaining work of popular science that tells the ...
A comprehensive and richly illustrated introduction to the world of viruses.
As parasites that are often hundreds of times smaller than bacteria, viruses exist in ...
For decades scientists have been warning of a global pandemic, and the Covid-19 coronavirus outbreak has realised their worst fears.
Covid-19 and monkeypox make Outbreaks ...
Throughout human history, every single one of us has been born from a person. So far. But that is about to change.
Scientific research is ...
An exciting look at the essential roles that parasites play in Earth's ecosystems.
This book looks at the weird and wonderful world of parasites ...
Our senses are at the heart of how we navigate the world. Whittling this high-powered and deliciously varied palette down to just five does a ...