You may recall that I was a judge for the 2016 Royal Society Insight Investment popular Science Book Prize.I mention this because you may not know this, and also because this is the reason I've ...

I'm excited to finally share the last group of popular science books with you. This group of books that I think were the best to be published in 2016 focuses on chemistry, physics and mathematics.

Humans The best popular science books out in 2023. Discover a quantum world of numbers, the amazing new science of the human electrome and long views of Earth and its wonders in this look at the ...

The Royal Society Science Book Prize 2020, sponsored by Insight Investment, is a prestigious award given to popular science books from across the world which are written for general readers. Out ...

With the Juno spacecraft arriving at Jupiter, a piece of amber-enclosed dinosaur tail showing up in a Burmese market, a child being born of three parents and, of course, the unprecedented ...

Last year, Popular Science celebrated 150 years with an abundance of pomp and circumstance. We paid homage to our founders, poked fun at zany old experiments, corrected the record, and nerded the ...

Comment The best popular science books of 2025 so far. The downsides of diagnosis and an epic trek following a Slovenian wolf are among our culture editor's top popular science books of the year ...

Psst, hey, big news here at Popular Science: We’re back on YouTube. Wait, let me say it louder: POPULAR SCIENCE IS BACK ON YOUTUBE.Whew, that felt good. As you may have gleaned from my only ...

It features the established popular-science writer Marcus Chown, who describes his experience of writing the book Quantum Theory Cannot Hurt You, which was published in 2007. Chown admits that he ...