Steven Poole

It's a standing joke among scientists that most headlines about health breakthroughs should be suffixed with the words “in mice”: “Vitamin D regulates cancer immunity”? Sure – in mice.

Time Runs like a River, Emma Carlisle’s latest book, uses gentle illustrations and lilting rhymes to foster a surprisingly deep message

After giving constitutional advice in war-torn countries such as Iraq, CL Skach puts forward ideas for a new society in How to Be a Citizen

Sheila Curran Bernard’s Bring Judgment Day rescues the real Lead Belly from the murderous hypocrisy of Jim Crow’s America

A spinoff from the podcast of the same name, this potted philosophical primer fails to live up to its title

On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything by Nate Silver has an overall rating of Positive based on 4 book reviews.

Whether you're using two printers or 20, find out how to launch a 3D printing business from successful entrepreneurs.

The historian and author argues that AI threatens democracy and civilisation by destroying our shared reality

A new story about cold war spymaster George Smiley written by John le Carré’s son expertly evokes the atmosphere of the originals

Richard Dawkins’s greatest hits, the diaries of a sociopath and a history of the gut