From contact with aliens courtesy of Adrian Tchaikovsky to the childhood writings of Octavia E. Butler, February’s sci-fi ...

George R.R. Martin joins a growing list of authors, actors and musicians who have published scientific research papers.

The next novel by Ian McEwan will be a post-apocalyptic story, set in part in the 22nd century and centered on a scholar’s ...

Sokolsky says his journey from accelerator physics to solar science has been shaped by curiosity, a love of teaching and an openness to new intellectual pursuits.

There are lots of great science fiction book series out there, many which bear some similarity to Dune. Whether you've read ...

Riley Black’s new book, When the Earth was Green, uses the latest research to envision the ancient worlds of our favorite prehistoric animals.

Social Physics is very much a work of practical science. In the second part of the book, Pentland moves from modeling social reality to suggesting tools for improving it. He describes a network ...

Back in the mid-1970s, it was infrequent that a book about science captured the collective imagination of a general readership, much less earned a slot on the best-seller list. There were plenty of ...