Books

A new look at how everything from handwriting to AI quietly reshapes our bodies, habits and sense of connection

There Is No Antimemetics Division explores how to survive when memories and meaning are malleable

A new book argues that disparities in fibroids, cancer and diagnosis reveal a lifelong gynecologic health crisis for Black women

Lindy Elkins-Tanton, principal investigator of NASA’s Psyche mission, explains in her new book how lessons from interplanetary exploration can help people solve problems together

A physicist explores how poetry, pop culture and imagination help us understand spacetime and our place in the universe

Author Rachel Zoffness breaks down why we have chronic pain and how science shows that it’s all in our head

Steve Brusatte, author of The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs and The Story of Birds, recommends 10 dinosaur books to dig into

Award winning duo James S. A. Corey show humanity’s struggle with staggering alien power in their latest installment of the Captive’s War series

Alexis Hall reimagines Melville’s classic with space whales, AI intrigue and a bold queer twist that launches Moby-Dick into an entirely new sci‑fi universe

A pain scientist breaks down the surprising brain‑body science that explains why so many of us hurt more than we have to

Ryan Gosling plays a science teacher turned (reluctant) astronaut in the upcoming film adaptation of Project Hail Mary, a science fiction novel by author Andy Weir

Michael Pollan dives into the scientific and philosophical puzzles of consciousness, from brain biology to AI and beyond