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Dr Strangelove and the real Doomsday machine
Christopher Coker
How dreams of the superweapon became reality
Are mammals moral?
Matthew Cobb
An investigation into empathy and altruism in primates - humans included
The world's problem
Robert May
Al Gore, George Monbiot and the true magnitude of climate change
How to make biology on your computer
Jonathan Hodgkin
Biocomputing and the case of grey goo versus brown scum
Evolution myths
Jim Endersby
Contrary to what we are often told, the idea that Darwin set science and religion at each other's throats is absurd
Thirty years of the Selfish Gene
Jerry A. Coyne
Controversy, celebration and Richard Dawkins
Battle of the bugs
J. L. Cloudsley-Thompson
How insects and other creatures protect themselves
Chimpanzee thoughts
Louise Barrett
The science behind monkey business
Solly Zuckerman and J. D. Bernal
Christopher Coker
Faustian pacts between politics and science
Shades of force and flirting
John Tyler Bonner
SEVEN DEADLY COLOURS. The genius of nature's palette and how it eluded Darwin. By Andrew Parker.
Stars of stars
John North
Why astrologists are always with us
From a lost world
Daniel Johnson
KOSMOS. Entwurf einer physischen Weltbeschreibung By Alexander von Humboldt. PHYSIKALISCHER ATLAS. By Heinrich Berghaus.
Heroines of the manure bed
Angelique Richardson
PANDORA'S BREECHES. Women, science and power in the Enlightenment. By Patricia Fara.
Einstein's devils
Daniel J. Kevles
Nationalists, ink-shitters, McCarthyites - and his postbag
I remember it too well
Andrew Scull
WHY LIFE SPEEDS UP AS YOU GET OLDER. How memory shapes our past. By Douwe Draaisma.
What's the buzz about?
Gaden S. Robinson
SWEETNESS AND LIGHT. The mysterious history of the honey bee. By Hattie Ellis. THE HIVE. The story of the honeybee and us. By Bee Wilson.
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