Frontiers 03 edited by Tim Radford, Guardian Books/Atlantic, 拢10.99, ISBN 1843340177 Reviewed by Clare Wilson
IT WAS a daunting experience holding the most important fossil find of 2002, says Nature journalist Henry Gee. After all, the 鈥淭oumai鈥� skull found in Chad could be from one of humanity鈥檚 oldest ancestors. He handled it rather gingerly, he recalls in Frontiers 03.
This collection of 23 concise essays, edited by Tim Radford, tackles the hottest scientific research. It鈥檚 a mixed bunch from stem cells to physicists鈥檚 supersymmetry theories; animal intelligence to global warming. Some subjects will be familiar to regular New Scientist readers, but there are interesting insights from the essayists, who are themselves distinguished scientists and specialist journalists.
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