“Transformative…[Taylor’s] experience…will shatter [your] own perception of the world.”—ABC News The astonishing New York Times bestseller that chronicles how a brain scientist’s own stroke led to enlightenment On December 10, 1996, Jill Bolte Taylor, a thirty-seven- year-old Harvard-trained brain scientist experienced a massive stroke in the left hemisphere of her […]
A wonderfully readable account of scientific development over the past five hundred years, focusing on the lives and achievements of individual scientists, by the bestselling author of In Search of Schrödinger’s Cat In this ambitious new book, John Gribbin tells the stories of the people who have made science, and […]
A new method of removing carbon dioxide from the air and storing it in the sea has been outlined by scientists. The new technique captures CO2 from the atmosphere up to three times more efficiently than current methods, according to researchers. The idea sees the planet-warming gas transformed into bicarbonate of soda and stored safely […]