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March 18, 2025

Inside the Stargazer's Palace by Violet Moller

March 18, 2025/ Steve Donoghue
Inside the Stargazer's Palace by Violet Moller

A lively, personality-driven history of the birth of science

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March 18, 2025/ Steve Donoghue/
Violet Muller, Inside the Stargazer's Palace, science, history, history of science, Tycho Brahe, Violet Moller
October 11, 2024

The Clock in the Sun by Pierre Sokolsky

October 11, 2024/ Nikolas Mavreas
The Clock in the Sun by Pierre Sokolsky

A new history of solar physics

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October 11, 2024/ Nikolas Mavreas/
The Clock in the Su, The Clock in the Sun, Pierre Sokolsky, science, astronomy, popular science
September 21, 2024

Mapmatics by Paulina Rowinska

September 21, 2024/ Nikolas Mavreas
Mapmatics by Paulina Rowinska

A new book overlays mathematics onto the contours of the real world

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September 21, 2024/ Nikolas Mavreas/
Mapmatics, Paulina Rowinska, mathematics, science, science writing
September 16, 2024

Is Earth Exceptional? by Mario Livio & Jack Szostak

September 16, 2024/ Steve Donoghue
Is Earth Exceptional? by Mario Livio & Jack Szostak

A basic new primer to the science of life, on and off Earth

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September 16, 2024/ Steve Donoghue/
Is Earth Exceptional, Mario Livo, Jack Szostak, exoplanets, astronomy, abiogenesis, chemistry, science, science writing
August 01, 2024

Sea Level by Wilko Graf von Hardenberg

August 01, 2024/ Steve Donoghue
Sea Level by Wilko Graf von Hardenberg

A short history of the concept of sea level — and its disturbing future

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August 01, 2024/ Steve Donoghue/
Wilko Graf von Hardenberg, Sea Level, science, climate change
February 26, 2024

Big Meg by Tim Flannery and Emma Flannery

February 26, 2024/ Steve Donoghue
Big Meg by Tim Flannery and Emma Flannery

A little book about a big subject: an infamous 60-foot extinct killer shark

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February 26, 2024/ Steve Donoghue/
Tim Flannery, Emma Flannery, Big Meg, sharks, megalodon, Steve Alten, science, natural history
January 24, 2024

The Mathematical Radio by Paul J. Nahin

January 24, 2024/ Steve Donoghue
The Mathematical Radio by Paul J. Nahin

An equation-laden new book defending the sullied honor of transistor radio

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January 24, 2024/ Steve Donoghue/
Paul Nahin, The Mathematical Radio, science, math, physics, FM radio
October 30, 2023

Dinosaur Behavior by Michael Benton

October 30, 2023/ Steve Donoghue
Dinosaur Behavior by Michael Benton

A colorful exploration of dinosaur life based on the latest research.

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October 30, 2023/ Steve Donoghue/
Animals & Nature, Science/Technology
Dinosaur Behavior, Michael Benton, dinosaurs, science, Bob Nicholls, Steve Donoghue, 2023
August 23, 2023

The Art of Anatomy in Medieval Europe by Taylor McCall

August 23, 2023/ Steve Donoghue
The Art of Anatomy in Medieval Europe by Taylor McCall

A thought-provoking new book about the pre-Renaissance study of human anatomy.

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August 23, 2023/ Steve Donoghue/
History, Science/Technology
The Art of Anatomy in Medieval Europe, Taylor McCall, anatomy, biology, medieval history, history, science, Steve Donoghue, 2023
April 13, 2023

Planta Sapiens by Paco Calvo

April 13, 2023/ Steve Donoghue
Planta Sapiens by Paco Calvo

A new book offers a revolutionary look at how plants think.

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April 13, 2023/ Steve Donoghue/
Animals & Nature, Science/Technology
Planta Sapiens: The New Science of Plant Intelligence, plants, natural history, science, botany, Paco Calvo, Natalie Lawrence, Steve Donoghue, 2023
January 27, 2023

Remnants of Ancient Life by Dale Greenwalt

January 27, 2023/ Steve Donoghue
Remnants of Ancient Life by Dale Greenwalt

The fascinating stories of ancient living traces caught in rock

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January 27, 2023/ Steve Donoghue/
Science/Technology
Remnants of Ancient Life: The New Science of Old Fossils, Dale E. Greenwalt, paleobiology, paleontology, science, fossibls, fossils, Dale Greenwalt, Steve Donoghue, 2023
July 13, 2022

Transformer by Nick Lane

July 13, 2022/ Steve Donoghue
Transformer by Nick Lane

A biochemist explains the chemistry at the heat of life.

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July 13, 2022/ Steve Donoghue/
Science/Technology
Transformer, Nick Lane, Krebs cycle, science, science writing, biochemistry, Steve Donoghue
February 28, 2022

A Little Book About the Big Bang by Tony Rothman

February 28, 2022/ Steve Donoghue
A Little Book About the Big Bang by Tony Rothman

A game introduction to physics.

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February 28, 2022/ Steve Donoghue/
Science/Technology
A Little Book About the Big Bang, Tony Rothman, physics, science, cosmology, astrophysics, evolution
April 23, 2021

Genesis by Guido Tonelli

April 23, 2021/ Steve Donoghue
Genesis by Guido Tonelli

Particle physicist Guido Tonelli writes about the first fraction of a second of our universe.

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April 23, 2021/ Steve Donoghue/
Nonfiction Translations, Science/Technology
Genesis, Guido Tonelli, Erica Segre, Simon Carnell, particle physics, cosmology, science, evolution, translations, Italian translation
December 07, 2020

The Best Books of 2020: Science!

December 07, 2020/ Steve Donoghue
The Best Books of 2020: Science!

2020 was a year in which science entered everyday life in the most apocalyptic way anybody had seen in over a century.

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December 07, 2020/ Steve Donoghue/
Science/Technology, Stevereads
The Best Books of 2020: Science, Best of 2020: Science, science, When Blood Breaks Down, Mikkael Sekeres, The World According the Physics, Jim Al-Khalil, The Contact Paradox, Keith Cooper, Sarah Scholes, They Are Already Here, SAM, Jonathan Waldman, Liquid Rules, The Internet in Everything, Laura Denardis, Dark Data, David Hand, Cryptography, Keith Martin, Mars, Stephen James O'Meara, The Hacker and the State, Ben Buchanan, Steve Donoghue, stevereads
September 11, 2020

The Human Cosmos by Jo Marchant

September 11, 2020/ Steve Donoghue
The Human Cosmos by Jo Marchant

A new book looks at the history - and one possible future - for the study of the cosmos.

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September 11, 2020/ Steve Donoghue/
Science/Technology
Jo Marchant, science, cosmology, Steve Donoghue
December 15, 2019

The Best Books of 2019: Science!

December 15, 2019/ Steve Donoghue
The Best Books of 2019: Science!

The 11th installment of Stevereads Best of 2019 list focuses on science!

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December 15, 2019/ Steve Donoghue/
Science/Technology
Best of 2019, Best of Lists, stevereads, science, Steve Donoghue
October 14, 2019

Unravelling the Double Helix by Gareth Williams

October 14, 2019/ Steve Donoghue
Unravelling the Double Helix by Gareth Williams

Williams fleshes out that story not only with clear explanations of the science involved but also with a broad, colorful gallery of personalities.

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October 14, 2019/ Steve Donoghue/
Science/Technology
Gareth Williams, Pegasus Books, DNA, science, genetics, Steve Donoghue
September 25, 2019

Something Deeply Hidden by Sean Carroll

September 25, 2019/ Steve Donoghue
Something Deeply Hidden by Sean Carroll

A smart and intensely readable undergraduate class in the history of quantum theory and the nature of quantum mechanics.

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September 25, 2019/ Steve Donoghue/
Science/Technology
Sean Carroll, Dutton, science, quantum physics, Steve Donoghue
April 15, 2019

The Pandemic Century by Mark Honigsbaum

April 15, 2019/ Steve Donoghue
The Pandemic Century by Mark Honigsbaum

The book is unfailingly fascinating reading, despite its appalling subject matter, with vividly drawn portraits of many of the people at the front lines.

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April 15, 2019/ Steve Donoghue/
History, Science/Technology
Mark Honigsbaum, WW Norton, pandemic, apocalypse, nonfiction, science, medicine, History
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