Krementsov provides a fascinating analysis of the vicissitudes of Russian attempts to improve the human species...

Even a math-phobic can read the book, skip the math, and then more than hold his or her own in any but the highest-level discussion of quantum computing...

What does it mean to be famous on the Internet?

It is estimated that malaria kills between 650,000 to 1.2 million Africans every year; experts believe that nearly 90 percent of these deaths occur in Africa...

"Trains, Buses, People' is a fascinating book about “How To” develop better transportation modes for US cities and urban...

By digging into recently opened regional archives, conducting dozens of interviews, and visiting sites across Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia, Brown sought to understand the extent of the damage from the 1986 explosion of Chernobyl’s reactor No. 4.

Dr. Christopher Preston argues that what is most startling about the Anthropocene is not only how much impact humans have had, but how much deliberate shaping humans will do...

Who is excluded from science?

What role do visual media play in establishing a medical phenomenon?

Jungle medicine: it's everywhere, from chia seeds to ginseng tea to CBD oil..

Wheeler is a former President of the National Cable and Telecommunications Association and former CEO of the Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association...

How can feminist theory help address the climate crisis?

In Cult of the Irrelevant, Desch traces the history of the relationship between the Washington and the academy across the 20th century...

In the information age, knowledge is power. Hence, facilitating the access to knowledge to wider publics empowers citizens and makes societies more democratic...

Open conflict between religion and science may not be inevitable, but a germ of discord resides in some of the fundamental commitments of both...

Knowledge of algorithms can in some sense be considered to be the literacy of the 21st century...

Kate Ervine provides an accessible and trenchant introduction to the severity of our situation and the international climate politics of the past 30 years...

If you are reading this, you have probably run into the "Chicago" model at some point or another,..

Van Noy decided not to follow the well-trodden path of trying to prove climate change science, nor did he bark about an irreversible tipping point. Instead, he provides us with a much-needed focus on communities...

Baum's book is a genealogy of “psychiatric modernity,” of the invention and reinvention of modern mental illness in Beijing, 1901-1937...

It's been called the first Internet. In the nineteenth century, the telegraph spun a world wide web of cables and poles, carrying electronic signals with unprecedented speed...

What accounts for the antagonism between Christianity and Darwinism?

During this interview Dr. Gieryn offers an in-depth explanation of how history and biography have fed the narratives told about truth-spots...

MacNamara traces the multiple avenues in which birth control entered the lives of everyday Americans and gained social acceptance...

In creating a detailed impression of the medieval race-making that would be reconfigured into the biological racism of the modern era, Heng reaches beyond medievalists and race-studies scholars to anyone interested in the long history of race.