Our picks of the best science books evoke a sense of wonder and make you marvel at the incredible world we live in.

Five top science book writers offer advice for budding authors in a series of interviews in Nature's Books & Arts section. Peter Atkins reveals the hard work behind a successful textbook; Carl ...

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Joanna Cole has authored more than 100 science books for children, including the best-selling Magic School Bus series, the latest edition of which tackles the topic of climate change. In the last ...

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Steven Weinberg is hawking a book about the history of science these days, and as part of the publicity effort for that, has produced a list of 13 books for non-scientists, with an accompanying ...

Authors including literary heavyweight Ian McEwan and big hitters John Scalzi, Yume Kitasei and Cixin Liu have new sci-fi ...

Barbara Kiser, books and arts editor at Nature, talks about her favorite science books of 2016, especially three works about the little-known history of women mathematicians.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has recommended books about history, business, and technology, but science comes back again and again.

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Live Science compiled the best science books, those in which the storytelling is as compelling as the science and history itself.