A new book from Rebecca Solnit, promising to bring us hope in these “difficult times”, is among our pick of popular science ...

Each year around this time, we ask the staff of Scientific American to recommend the best books they read this year. Here are the 67 new favorites and old classics that kept us turning the pages in ...

Plausible science fiction occupies a space between imagination and inquiry. It does not promise answers so much as ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ariane 5, bearing the James Webb Space Telescope, lifts off from French Guiana in 2021 - Getty The best science books of 2024 tell ...

It’s officially summertime, and the season of reading is finally here! Two science writers and voracious readers have compiled their summer reading recommendations, just for Science Friday fans.

The latest in Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Children of Time series is out this month, along with a speculative retelling of Moby-Dick and a forgotten classic from 1936 ...

It’s nowhere near early enough for those of us in the northern hemisphere to start struggling against winter’s somnolent spell, so there’s no need for excuses as you take to your bed with a pile of ...