March 2025 Issue John Gribbin Last Man on Earth The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire: Why Our Species is on the Edge of Extinction By Henry Gee LR
November 2024 Issue Henry Gee Neanderthal Resources Human Peoples: On the Genetic Traces of Human Evolution, Migration and Adaptation By Lluís Quintana-Murci (Translated from French by Howard Curtis) LR
September 2024 Issue Roger Highfield With Gaia Abandon The Many Lives of James Lovelock By Jonathan Watts LR
August 2021 Issue Andrew Crumey Slime & Reason Life’s Edge: The Search for What It Means to Be Alive By Carl Zimmer LR
March 2021 Issue Helen Pearson The Other C Word The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race By Walter Isaacson LR
June 2002 Issue A C Grayling Men or Supermen Our Posthuman Future By Francis Fukuyama Redesigning Humans By Gregory Stock
December 2019 Issue Tom Fort They Don’t Even Have Smartphones Incredible Journeys: Exploring the Wonders of Animal Navigation By David Barrie LR
July 2019 Issue John Vidal Try Not to Breathe Choked: The Age of Air Pollution and the Fight for a Cleaner Future By Beth Gardiner Clearing the Air: The Beginning and the End of Air Pollution By Tim Smedley The Invisible Killer: The Rising Global Threat of Air Pollution – and How We Can Fight Back By Gary Fuller
March 1993 Issue Petronella Wyatt American Womanhood at the Gateway to Death American Womanhood at the Gateway to Death By Gail Sheehy LR
March 2019 Issue Charles Foster More Morphic Resonances Ways to Go Beyond and Why They Work By Rupert Sheldrake
May 2018 Issue John Deben Food for Thought Seeds of Science: Why We Got It So Wrong on GMOs By Mark Lynas
December 2001 Issue Aidan Hartley The Fight Is Not Over The Fever Trail: The Hunt For The Cure For Malaria By Mark Honigsbaum LR
April 2017 Issue Jonathan Beckman The Great Hard Drive in the Sky To Be a Machine: Adventures among Cyborgs, Utopians, Hackers, and the Futurists Solving the Modest Problem of Death By Mark O'Connell
November 2016 Issue Richard Smyth Bird’s-Eye Viewing Where the Animals Go: Tracking Wildlife with Technology in 50 Maps and Graphics By James Cheshire & Oliver Uberti LR
September 2016 Issue Wendy Moore Blessed Are the Bacteria I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life By Ed Yong
September 2015 Issue Henry Gee 1953 and All That Life’s Greatest Secret: The Race to Crack the Genetic Code By Matthew Cobb LR
November 2007 Issue Walter Gratzer Venter’s Version A Life Decoded: My Genome – My Life By J Craig Venter LR
July 2012 Issue Lewis Wolpert Jolt to the System The Spark of Life: Electricity in the Human Body By Frances Ashcroft LR
April 2014 Issue Colin Tudge Hotting Up A Rough Ride to the Future: The Next Evolution of Gaia By James Lovelock LR
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