April has a lot to offer when it comes to popular science reading, promising to help us do everything from future-proof our ...

Kid lit experts weigh in on some of the year’s best science titles. Plus, what to look for when choosing a book for the child in your life. Are you hoping to inspire a young reader in your life with ...

Overview: Behavioral science explains how people think and make decisions in real-world situations, highlighting the gap between rational assumptions and ...

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From “experimental archaeology” to the mysterious appeal of exploration, the wide-ranging subjects detailed in these titles captivated Smithsonian magazine’s science contributors this year Joe Spring, ...

Emily H. Wilson is wild for this sci-fi novel: I’ve not heard our sci-fi columnist recommend a book so wholeheartedly in all the time she’s written for us. It follows Mawukana na-Vdnaze, a deep-space ...

In September and October 2026, the Science Friday Book Club will read another exciting science nonfiction or science fiction selection. Keep an eye on this webpage for updates. Or join our Book Club ...

If you click on links we provide, we may receive compensation. Gerber and Alyssa Reeder launched Library Science in 2024 to uplift new and underrepresented authors Lionel Hahn/Getty Kaia Gerber and ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Thankfully, we can still turn to our bookshelves — and podcasts — to ground us. We tapped science doyenne Alie ...

It’s been an uneasy year for science. While there were significant milestones, like breakthroughs in gene editing for rare diseases and novel insights into early human evolution (including fire-making ...