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The fascinating, untold story of the air we breathe, the hidden life it contains, and invisible dangers that can turn the world upside down Every day we draw in two thousand gallons of air-and thousands of living things. From the ground to the...

Winner, A Friend of Darwin Award, 2024 A gorgeously composed look at the longstanding relationship between prehistoric plants and life on Earth Fossils plants allow us to touch the lost worlds from billions of years of evolutionary backstory. Each...

Named a Best Book of the Year by Forbes and The Economist From our "greatest living statistical communicator" (Tim Harford) comes an invaluable, data-driven guide for understanding-and learning to embrace-risk and uncertainty in our daily lives....

Tween girls in America today are growing up on social media, posting selfies and sharing "stories." In Digital Girlhoods , Katherine Phelps emphasizes tween girls' agency on social media vis-à-vis identity formation, content creation, and...

"It was the strangest of experiments. What began as a utopian environment, where mice had sumptuous accommodations, all the food and water they could want, and were free from disease and predation, turned into a mouse hell. Science writer and...