This book, with its wide array of fascinating examples of adhesion, should appeal to a wide scientific readership.
This book is much more than a comprehensive review of modern virology. It is a memoir of the author’s long association with this science. The author has been at the forefront of virus research for the past 50 years and has strong views on the evolution of viruses – what she calls paleovirology, the origin of gene sequences.
Can science be trusted? Harvard professor of the history of science, Naomi Oreskes debated this question with several other distinguished experts from various fields over a series of lectures at Princeton University, US. Read the book review in C&I Magazine.
This book will undoubtedly fuel imagination and enthusiasm for research in this area and is sure to inspire the next generation of DNA researchers. A brief introduction into the basic science of DNA prepares the reader to receive exciting examples where DNA is used outside cells all based on the recent literature and some historical context.
This book attempts to cover chemical elements in all living systems, a vast area. Much of the content is concerned with the organic chemistry and biochemistry of carbon-based systems. Read the book review of Chemical elements in life in C&I Magazine.
It is not reasonable to expect that a single book purporting to cover the entire field of some mature and well-established discipline can perform the task exhaustively. Read the book review of The big ideas of science: a complete introduction in C&I Magazine.
Science journalist Debora MacKenzie in her first book investigates the rapidly developing Covid-19 story up to June 2020. She addresses several basic scientific questions on how the virus got started; when it was first identified; and what steps were taken to impede its progression.
In his book, Paul Halpern uses a surprising pairing of characters as the focal point of his investigations into the physics of mysterious actions, namely the pioneering theoretician of quantum mechanics Wolfgang Pauli (1900–58) and the eminent psychoanalyst Carl Gustav Jung (1875–1961).
A review of the book Molecules, microbes, and meals by Alan Kelly. The book is engaging in parts when there is a story to tell, such as how milk becomes cheese, but in others it’s just a materials science textbook with terrible puns. The bigger and more interesting story of our food remains untold.
The Fundamentals of smart materials is a collection of essays written mainly by the editor Mohsen Shahinpoor. Eighteen of the 24 chapters are authored by him. Topics include piezoelectric materials, magnetostrictive materials, shape memory alloys, mechanochromic materials, thermochromic materials, chemomechanical polymers as well as self-healing materials. Read the book review.