Reviews

  1. Humans

    The Accidental Species

    Misunderstandings of Human Evolution by Henry Gee.

    By Erin Wayman
  2. Physics

    Cruise through a collider

    Now anyone can tour the Large Hadron Collider and other CERN experiments in 360-degree photo panoramas online.

    By Sarah Zielinski
  3. Tech

    Ingenious

    A True Story of Invention, Automotive Daring, and the Race to Revive America by Jason Fagone.

    By Sid Perkins
  4. Cosmology

    My Brief History

    by Stephen Hawking.

    By Andrew Grant
  5. Math

    Love and Math

    The Heart of Hidden Reality by Edward Frenkel.

    By Ashley Yeager
  6. Science & Society

    Humans’ living creations put on display

    The Center for PostNatural History, a museum that opened in 2012, features Freckles and other organisms altered by humans.

    By Cristy Gelling
  7. Humans

    Our Final Invention

    Computers already make all sorts of decisions for you. Imagine if the machines controlled even more aspects of life and could truly think for themselves.

    By Sid Perkins
  8. Genetics

    Family takes on progeria in ‘Life According to Sam’

    A new documentary portrays an extraordinary search for a cure spurred by a teen with the premature aging disease.

    By Tina Hesman Saey
  9. Science & Society

    Scarcity

    Sendhil Mullainathan and Eldar Shafir explain why having too little means so much.

    By Nathan Seppa
  10. Health & Medicine

    ‘Decoding Annie Parker’ portrays hunt for breast cancer genes

    Not long ago, most doctors scoffed at the idea of a “cancer gene,” as the new film shows.

    By Tina Hesman Saey
  11. Neuroscience

    Brainy videos

    A short film that uses humor and science to explain congenital anosmia has won the Society for Neuroscience’s 2013 Brain Awareness Video Contest.

    By Sarah Zielinski
  12. Astronomy

    The NASA take on ‘Gravity’

    An astronaut and a NASA expert consider the reality of the film’s space dangers.

    By Andrew Grant