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How did a piece of gold foil completely change our understanding of atoms?
What part did a hot air balloon play in the discovery...

The Trespasser's Companion is a rallying cry for greater public access to nature and a gently seditious guide to how to get it:...

The Book of Trespass. Crossing the Lines that Divide Us

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 last three billion years or so, life on Earth was shaped by natural forces. Evolution tended to happen slowly, with...

A fascinating look at extraterrestrial volcanoes in our Solar System.

The volcano – among the most familiar and perhaps the...

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...

Imagine if The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy were a real, practical book about the mysteries of the universe…

The Universe...

In Wilding, Isabella Tree tells the story of the 'Knepp experiment', a pioneering rewilding project in West Sussex, using...

The physical world is infinitely complex, yet most of us are able to find our way around it. We can walk through unfamiliar...

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...

From Dean to Epping and Hatfield to Sherwood, this beautiful tribute to the natural history of our iconic British woodlands...

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,...

Acclaimed author Matt Ridley's thrilling follow-up to his bestseller Genome. Armed with the extraordinary new discoveries about...

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...

The perfect gift for anyone with a desire to see the Northern Lights.
Discover the incomparable beauty of the Northern Lights...

How many cats are there in the world?

What's the chance of winning the lottery twice?

And just how long does it take to...