Popular science

Scores of wild species and ecosystems around the world face a variety of human-caused threats, from habitat destruction and fragmentation to rapid climate change.

We are currently facing the sixth mass extinction of species in the history of life on Earth, biologists claim-the first one caused by humans.

For years, scientists have been warning us that a pandemic was all but inevitable.

Dependent on a shrinking supply of bamboo, hunted mercilessly for its pelt, and hostage to profiteering schemes once in captivity, the panda is on the brink of extinction.

Despite the hype about healthy, low-carb/low-fat diets, the production of deep-fat fried foods continues to be a major processing operation around the world, generating billions of dollars each year.

Based on an IFT short course, Beverage Quality and Safety offers information on the latest beverage industry trends related to products, processing, and packaging technologies - including new generation nutraceutical beverages.

The field of food quality assurance has evolved substantially over the past decade, and certain key developments have become widely accepted.

In The Mind within the Brain, David Redish brings together cutting edge research in psychology, robotics, economics, neuroscience, and the new fields of neuroeconomics and computational psychiatry, to offer a unified theory of human decision-making.

How the Ray Gun Got Its Zap is a collection of essays that discusses odd and unusual topics in optics.

Knowledge is a big subject, says Stuart Firestein, but ignorance is a bigger one.

The Ballet of the Planets unravels the beautiful mystery of planetary motion, revealing how our understanding of astronomy evolved from Archimedes and Ptolemy to Copernicus, Kepler, and Newton.

Newton's explanation of the natural law of universal gravity shattered the way mankind perceived the universe, and hence it was not immediately embraced.

"e;Bucky Fuller thought big,"e; Wired magazine recently noted, "e;Arthur C.

Do a little armchair time-travel, rub elbows with a four-dimensional intelligent life form, or stretch your mind to the furthest corner of an uncharted universe.

In an engaging tour of the science and history of cheese, Michael Tunick explores the art of cheese making, the science that lies underneath the deliciousness, and the history behind how humanity came up with one of its most varied and versatile of foods.

Packed with more than a hundred color illustrations and a wide variety of puzzles and brainteasers, Taking Sudoku Seriously uses this popular craze as the starting point for a fun-filled introduction to higher mathematics.

Nobel laureate Roald Hoffmann's contributions to chemistry are well known.

Packed with more than a hundred color illustrations and a wide variety of puzzles and brainteasers, Taking Sudoku Seriously uses this popular craze as the starting point for a fun-filled introduction to higher mathematics.

Nobel laureate Roald Hoffmann's contributions to chemistry are well known.

An illuminating look at the wonders of mushroom biology and an exploration of their enduring appeal

There have been many books, movies, and even TV commercials featuring Neandertals--some serious, some comical.

Is it right to use biomedical technologies to make us better than well or even perhaps better than human?

Why do so many Americans reject the modern theory of evolution?

Why do so many Americans reject the modern theory of evolution?

In The Mind within the Brain, David Redish brings together cutting edge research in psychology, robotics, economics, neuroscience, and the new fields of neuroeconomics and computational psychiatry, to offer a unified theory of human decision-making.

The Ballet of the Planets unravels the beautiful mystery of planetary motion, revealing how our understanding of astronomy evolved from Archimedes and Ptolemy to Copernicus, Kepler, and Newton.

As the pace of technological change accelerates, we are increasingly experiencing a state of information overload.

Mathematicians call it the Monty Hall Problem, and it is one of the most interesting mathematical brain teasers of recent times.

The periodic table is one of the most potent icons in science.

City of Light tells the story of fiber optics, tracing its transformation from 19th-century parlor trick into the foundation of our global communications network.

In just a half century, humanity has made an astounding leap in its understanding of life.

In How the Laser Happened, Nobel laureate Charles Townes provides a highly personal look at some of the leading events in twentieth-century physics.

When the whole is greater than the sum of the parts--indeed, so great that the sum far transcends the parts and represents something utterly new and different--we call that phenomenon emergence.

If we actually received messages from the stars, what would we do with them?

There have been many books, movies, and even TV commercials featuring Neandertals--some serious, some comical.

An illuminating look at the wonders of mushroom biology and an exploration of their enduring appeal

Crustaceans are increasingly used as model organisms in all fields of biology, including neurobiology, developmental biology, animal physiology, evolutionary ecology, biogeography, and resource management.

Devices of Curiosity excavates a largely unknown genre of early cinema, the popular-science film.

Lee Smolin offers a new theory of the universe that is at once elegant, comprehensive, and radically different from anything proposed before.

Here is a lively history of modern physics, as seen through the lives of thirty men and women from the pantheon of physics.

This is the story of a new science.

Until about 13,000 years ago, North America was home to a menagerie of massive mammals.

We ask question after question of an indifferent universe that would just as soon remain mute; and slowly, patiently, one sentence at a time, we write our own version of the book of nature.

This is the story of a new science.

Knowledge is a big subject, says Stuart Firestein, but ignorance is a bigger one.

Imagine living in 1958, and knowing that the integrated circuit--the microchip--was about to be invented, and would revolutionize the world.

Is it right to use biomedical technologies to make us better than well or even perhaps better than human?

One of the most popular and widely known characters in all of fiction, Sherlock Holmes has an enduring appeal based largely on his uncanny ability to make the most remarkable deductions from the most mundane facts.

Throughout its long history, and not just as the key aesthetic category for the Romantic Movement, the sublime has created the necessary link between aesthetic and moral judgment, offering the prospect of transcending the limits of measurement, even imagination.

Here is an unprecedented collection of twenty freewheeling and revealing interviews with major players in the ongoing--and increasingly heated--debate about the relationship between religion and science.