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Holding her first grandchild in her arms in 2003, Mary Robinson was struck by the uncertainty of the world he had been born into....

In the 1520s a Polish cleric named Nicolaus Copernicus developed a revolutionary theory which placed the Sun, not the Earth, at...

You are surrounded by stickiness. With every step you take, air molecules cling to you and slow you down; the effect is harder to...

At the scale of atoms and molecules, things quite often like to stick together. But these tiny interactions don't just matter at...

For the first time, behavioural and data scientist, activist and writer Dr Pragya Agarwal unravels the way our implicit or...

Did you know the link between carbon dioxide and global warming was first suggested in the 1850s? Climate change books are...

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Elephant's on Acid comes a collection of the wackiest theories from science and...

Two Groundbreaking Scientists and Their Conflicting Visions of the Future of Our Planet

In forty years, the population of the...

Filled with incident, discovery, and revelation, Dutch Light is a vivid account of Christiaan Huygens's remarkable life and...

From revolution on Twitter to romance on Tinder, we live in a world constructed of code - and coders are the ones who built it...

For billions of years, Earth was an inhospitably alien place - covered with churning seas, slowly crafting its landscape by way...

Inspired by the history of Britain, from the tree under which the first trade union was formed to the branches from which outlaws...

Forest celebrates the diverse ways in which trees and forests are as magnificent, economically relevant and profoundly enchanting...

Hedgerows are one of the richest sources of wildlife in Britain. They have evolved over centuries (18th and 19th centuries...

Lowther... , Crossman...

The CfE Maths series covers all the Experiences and Outcomes within the Scottish Curriculum for Excellence for Maths at Second,...

We are at a pivotal moment in the fight against climate change – with the ultimate opportunity to reassess what society values...

Think like you’ve got nine brains, feel like you’ve got three hearts, and hug as though you have eight arms.
Wisdom begins in...

Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that shed...

There may be no insect with a worse reputation than the wasp, and none guarding so many undiscovered wonders.
Where bees and...

In this extraordinary journey through twenty-six countries, Simon Mundy meets the people on the front lines of the climate...

Foxes, buzzards, crows, badgers, weasels, seals, kites - Britain and Ireland's predators are impressive and diverse and they...

Humans are the only mammals to walk on two, rather than four, legs. From an evolutionary perspective, this is an illogical...

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The theory of evolution by natural selection did not spring fully formed and unprecedented from the brain of Charles Darwin....

How To Talk To Robots, is your girls guide to Artificial Intelligence. Entrepreneur Tabitha Goldstaub welcomes you into the AI...

Bees continue to fascinate and charm us all – from novice gardeners and nature-lovers to dedicated environmentalists – and today,...

What makes a scientist?

Charming, funny and wise, in this memoir Richard Fortey shows how restless curiosity about the...

A long-awaited volume in the New Naturalist series examining the trees of Britain.
Trees are immensely valuable. They give shape...

Ian Newton, author of Farming and Birds and Bird Migration returns to the New Naturalist series with a long awaited look at the...

For fans of Charles Duhig, Malcolm Gladwell and Nate Silver, a brilliant and buoyant investigation into the existence (or not) of...

The evolution of dogs and the forces that drove its amazing transformation from a fierce wild carnivore, the wolf, to the...