Science & Technology

Cosmos, genes, code and the people pushing knowledge forward.

10 books

Cosmology

A Brief History of Time

Stephen Hawking · 1988

From the Big Bang to black holes, for general readers.

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Astronomy

Cosmos

Carl Sagan · 1980

Sagan's celebrated tour of the universe and our place in it.

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Artificial Intelligence

Superintelligence

Nick Bostrom · 2014

Paths, dangers and strategies for the age of machine superintelligence.

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Science Memoir

Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!

Richard P. Feynman · 1985

Adventures of a curious character: the Nobel physicist in his own words.

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Biotechnology

The Code Breaker

Walter Isaacson · 2021

Jennifer Doudna, gene editing and the future of the human race.

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Genetics

The Gene

Siddhartha Mukherjee · 2016

An intimate history of the gene, from Mendel to CRISPR.

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Medical Science

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Rebecca Skloot · 2010

The story of the woman whose cells changed medicine forever.

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History of Computing

The Innovators

Walter Isaacson · 2014

How a group of hackers, geniuses and geeks created the digital revolution.

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Evolutionary Biology

The Selfish Gene

Richard Dawkins · 1976

The gene-centered view of evolution that changed biology.

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Philosophy of Science

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

Thomas S. Kuhn · 1962

The landmark book that introduced the idea of paradigm shifts.

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