| The Catalyst: RNA and the Quest to Unlock Life's Deepest Secrets by Thomas R. CechNobel Prize-winning biochemist Thomas R. Cech explains RNA, covering its amazing properties, exciting early developments, modern day advances (CRISPR, mRNA vaccines), and possible future uses in this "lively and entertaining" (Wall Street Journal) debut. For fans of Siddhartha Mukherjee's The Song of the Cell. |
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| Sharks Don't Sink: Adventures of a Rogue Shark Scientist by Jasmin GrahamIn this inspiring memoir, marine biologist Jasmin Graham talks sharks and describes her lifelong passion for the water, her journey to becoming a scientist, co-founding Minorities in Shark Sciences, and the challenges she's faced in a white, male-dominated field. You might also like: Chanda Prescod-Weinstein's The Disordered Cosmos. |
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| Sing Like Fish: How Sound Rules Life Under Water by Amorina KingdonSynthesizing past knowledge with new research, this "exquisite debut" (Publishers Weekly) lyrically discusses the importance of sound to marine animals, how sound acts differently in the water, the perils of human-made noise on life beneath the waves, and more. Further Reading: David George Haskell's Sounds Wild and Broken. |
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| The Secret Lives of Numbers: A Hidden History of Math's Unsung Trailblazers by Kate Kitagawa and Timothy RevellIn this engaging, accessible narrative that spans six continents and begins with a 20,000-year-old bone, a math historian and a science journalist shine a light on important people who've often been ignored or forgotten in the history of mathematics. Further reading: The Art of More by Michael Brooks; The Man from the Future by Ananyo Bhattacharya. |
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| Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI by Madhumita MurgiaIn her compelling and unsettling first book, a veteran tech journalist describes what she learned traveling the world and speaking with a wide range of people about the effects, good and bad, of artificial intelligence on everyday people's lives. Further reading: Unmasking AI by Joy Buolamwini; The Algorithm by Hilke Schellmann. |
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We Loved it All: A Memory of Life
by Lydia Millet
In her first nonfiction book, the celebrated novelist, drawing on her 25 years of wildlife and climate advocacy, marries scenes from her life with moments of nearness to the animals and plants with whom we share the earth, asking we extend to other living beings the simple grace of continued existence.
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Becoming Earth: How Our Planet Came to Life
by Ferris Jabr
A leading new voice in science writing looks at how our planet became the world we know, how it is quickly changing and what we can do to help determine the kind of Earth our descendants inherit.
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