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The science behind talking parrots – and ‘texting’ wolves
Arik Kershenbaum’s account of the wonderfully rich and strange evolved behaviours that constitute animal communication
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How ‘white holes’ could explain the mystery of dark matter
Can matter 'bounce' in a black hole? What would you see inside one? Carlo Rovelli's brilliant new book White Holes asks surprising questions
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Inside the collapse of Sam Bankman-Fried’s crypto empire
Michael Lewis’s biography of the FTX chief offers a riveting story full of oddballs and odder decisions – but it ducks the biggest question
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A look inside Elon Musk’s strange world – and what he thinks of himself
Walter Isaacson’s biography, the fruit of two years’ work, may be pedestrian in style, but its portrait of the tech maverick is fascinating
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Was Sigmund Freud really a scientist, or just a cult leader surrounded by pseuds and grifters?
Seamus O’Mahoney's The Guru, the Bagman and the Sceptic riotously recalls the rise of psychoanalysis, despite its most dubious practitioners
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The best new science books of 2022
Face your fears! Make this the year you finally gets to grips with the Metaverse, incoming asteroids – and torture-happy wasps
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Greta Thunberg’s Climate Book is a great scientific one-stop shop – despite its anti-capitalist bent
More than 100 scientists and campaigners have contributed to the 19-year-old Swede's book; the best of them look to technology for solutions
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The rise of the ‘new human’ – how stem cells are revolutionising medicine
Siddhartha Mukherjee's brilliant The Song of The Cell explains how these building blocks will upend our understanding of life itself
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And, Finally by Henry Marsh review: the great brain surgeon faces the end with dignity and humour
In a beautifully written memoir, the surgeon reflects on his cancer diagnosis – and explains why you should exaggerate your pain to doctors
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How our obsession with oil turned Churchill into a ‘socialist’
Keith Fisher's A Pipeline Runs Through It reminds us that this isn’t the first time dependence on Russian oil has had awful consequences
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Do we finally have proof of the multiverse?
Laura Mersini-Houghton’s Before the Big Bang explores the theories of parallel dimensions, which have existed since Ancient Greece
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Nature’s torture-porn: the grotesque truth about wasps
Seemingly evil, wasps broke Darwin’s faith in a benevolent god. Now comes the pro-wasp propaganda: Seirian Sumner's new book, Endless Forms
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The Premonitions Bureau: how 1960s scientists tried to predict disasters through dreams
Sam Knight's atmospheric book investigates a forgotten branch of psychiatry which sought to harness the power of spookily prophetic visions
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Control by Adam Rutherford review: a fizzy history of eugenics – and what science still can't do
This book covers horrific Nazi history and modern debates, but really excels at debunking the idea that complex traits can be lab engineered
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Insulin by Kersten T Hall, review: from jabbing to back-stabbing
Hormone injections were meant to be an affordable miracle treatment for diabetes. In the US, they now cost $1,000 a month. What went wrong?
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The best new science books to buy for Christmas 2021
From the hellish depths of the seabed to a tech billionaires’ showdown in space, science writers followed their stories to the extreme
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