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June 2021

The Secret Life of Stars: Astrophysics for Everyone

By Lisa Harvey-Smith

Masters of the Planet, The Search for Our Human Origins

By Ian Tattersall

Fireflies, Honey, 
and Silk

By Gilbert Waldbauer, 
Illustrations by James Nardi

October 2010

From Eternity to Here The Quest for the Ultimate 
Theory of Time

By Sean Carroll

December 2009-January 2010

Moon 3-D: The Lunar Surface Comes to Life

By Jim Bell

December 2009-January 2010

Endless Forms: Charles Darwin, Natural Science and the Visual Arts

By edited by Diana Donald and Jane Munro

December 2009-January 2010

Evolution: The Story of Life

By Douglas Palmer, illustrated by Peter Barrett

December 2009-January 2010

Waterbirds

By Theodore Cross

December 2009-January 2010

Extreme Birds: The World’s Most Extraordinary and Bizarre Birds

By Dominic Couzens

Recent Stories

Despite warnings by biologists and geneticists, eminent individuals and venerable institutions helped promote a false theory that led to sterilizations and genocide.

Fossilized cell remnants in 3.4 billion-year-old bedrock are from primitive microbes. 

Frog hoppers piercing plants with their mouthparts produce negative pressures exceeding a megapascal. 

An Okinawa citrus species arose two million years ago when the Ryukyu archipelago disconnected from Asia.