Favorite books of 2021

Science & Society
These are Science News’ favorite books of 2021

By Science News StaffDecember 8, 2021
Anthropology
‘The Dawn of Everything’ rewrites 40,000 years of human history

By Bruce BowerNovember 9, 2021
Science & Society
‘On the Fringe’ explores the thin line between science and pseudoscience

By Tom SiegfriedAugust 30, 2021
Cosmology
‘Flashes of Creation’ recounts the Big Bang theory’s origin story

By Christopher CrockettAugust 24, 2021
Space
Vera Rubin’s work on dark matter led to a paradigm shift in cosmology

By Maria TemmingAugust 17, 2021
Life
‘Wild Souls’ explores what we owe animals in a human-dominated world

By Jonathan LambertJuly 26, 2021
Science & Society
An ecologist’s new book gets at the root of trees’ social lives

By Cori VanchieriJune 28, 2021
Anthropology
‘First Steps’ shows how bipedalism led humans down a strange evolutionary path

By Riley BlackApril 14, 2021

We summarize the week's scientific breakthroughs every Thursday.

Tech
‘Pipe Dreams’ flushes out hope in an unexpected place: the toilet

By Maria TemmingApril 6, 2021
Genetics
‘The Code Breaker’ tells the story of CRISPR pioneer Jennifer Doudna

By Ashley YeagerMarch 19, 2021
Life
Two new books investigate why it’s so hard to define life

By Erin Garcia de JesúsMarch 17, 2021
Science & Society
‘Gory Details’ dives into the morbid, the taboo — and our minds

By Kate TravisMarch 1, 2021