From the September 2019 Issue Coming Full Circle Infinite Powers: The Story of Calculus – The Language of the Universe By Steven Strogatz LR
From the June 2017 Issue The Beat Goes On The Matter of the Heart: A History of the Heart in Eleven Operations By Thomas Morris LR
From the March 2017 Issue Going Viral The Vaccine Race: How Scientists Used Human Cells to Combat Killer Viruses By Meredith Wadman
From the November 2016 Issue Clocking On Timekeepers: How the World Became Obsessed with Time By Simon Garfield LR
From the September 2016 Issue Good Vibrations The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning and the Universe Itself By Sean Carroll LR
From the December 2011 Issue Quite Easily Done The Infinity Puzzle: How the quest to understand quantum field theory led to extraordinary science, high politics, and the world’s most expensive experiment By Frank Close LR
From the March 2012 Issue Particle Crasher Higgs Force: The Symmetry-Breaking Force that Makes the World an Interesting Place By Nicholas Mee LR
From the May 2012 Issue The Exclusion Principle The Quantum Exodus: Jewish Fugitives, the Atomic Bomb, and the Holocaust By Gordon Fraser LR
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