An expert's new book unravels the amazing secrets of the vagus nerve
7 May 2025
Kevin Tracey's authoritative look at the vagus nerve and its healing potential is comprehensive and compelling, cutting through the hype
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Signs of Terry Pratchett’s dementia may have been hidden in his books
12 March 2025
Terry Pratchett was diagnosed with posterior cortical atrophy, a type of dementia caused by Alzheimer’s disease, in 2007 – but an analysis of his Discworld books suggests there were signs of the condition a decade earlier
14 great science and tech books to give as presents this Christmas
28 November 2018
From the true nature of time to the world's most extraordinary brains to why you should ditch social media, Culture picks the best books to give this year
Don't Miss: a dance in virtual space, playable painting and podcasts
31 October 2018
Watch a powerful dance, play a painting created for the first world war centenary, listen to the latest about Saturn and read about the perils of our ever-cleaner homes
Model Behaviour: How a sceptic was won over by life in the lab
30 May 2018
A new book about shadowing a team of behavioural geneticists shows them at great pains to capture the vagaries and complexities of their tricky research
The Genius Within: How to be smart in the 21st century
14 March 2018
Boosting IQ is a hot topic in self-improvement. But a riveting new read leaves some big questions hanging
From statistics to surgery to psychology: Our favourite reads
10 August 2017
A visit to the bookstore turns up a trove of smart scientific (and not-so-scientific) thinking
Win a stack of science books for foodies
24 May 2017
This is your chance to win a set of books about better cooking and cocktail making through science, as well as the language of food
Win a stack of science books for foodies
24 May 2017
This is your chance to win a set of books about better cooking and cocktail making through science, as well as the language of food
Scurvy: A tale of the sailors' curse and a cure that got lost
16 November 2016
The fact that it took such a long time to nail the true cause of scurvy tells us a lot about science both then and now, argues a new book about the disease
