
The best new popular science books of January 2026
5 January 2026
A host of new science books are due to hit shelves in January, by authors including Claudia Hammond, Deborah Cohen and Daisy Fancourt

5 January 2026
A host of new science books are due to hit shelves in January, by authors including Claudia Hammond, Deborah Cohen and Daisy Fancourt

23 October 2025
Groundbreaking dialogues between expert meditators and leading scientists open a new frontier in science education with the potential to address society’s biggest challenges.

7 May 2025

16 April 2025
Quantum theory started with a bout of hay fever, and went on to transform our view of the universe – but its legacy isn't complete

29 July 2024
Quantum theory describes the tiny building blocks that make up everything around us. It has made many successful predictions but could a new, more radical idea help us make better sense of the world around us? Could it even be the answer to creating...

29 July 2024
Quantum theory describes the tiny building blocks that make up everything around us. It has made many successful predictions but could a new, more radical idea help us make better sense of the world around us? Could it even be the answer to creating...

16 April 2024
A black hole would be tough to destroy, but in the season two premiere of Dead Planets Society our hosts are willing to go to extremes, from faster-than-light bombs to time travel

23 November 2022
Supermassive black holes that beam powerful jets of matter towards Earth, known as blazars, accelerate particles to extraordinarily high energies – and astronomers have finally figured out how

9 November 2022

13 October 2022
Inspired by the art of Cornelia Parker, physicist Carlo Rovelli explains the idea of relational quantum mechanics - and how it could resolve some key problems concerning the nature of reality.