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Science and nature books

May 2026

  • Babies wearing pink and blue

    A Billion Years of Sex Differences by Steve Stewart-Williams review – what we get wrong about men and women

    A psychologist wades into controversial territory in this counterintuitive study of nature, nurture and gender
  • Illustration of flowers and fire extinguishers

    The big idea
    Could nature itself hold the solution to climate change?

    Technological interventions face huge financial or practical challenges. Why not embrace the Earth’s feedback loops?

    • Book of the day
      The Savage Landscape by Cal Flyn review – a carnival of a book about Earth’s wild places

    • Book of the day
      This Book May Cause Side Effects by Helen Pilcher review – can you think yourself sick?

    • To give young people wings: The Lost Words duo reunite for book of birds

April 2026

  • ITV Archive'Zoo Time' 1961, Desmond Morris and a chimpanzee ITV Archive

    Desmond Morris obituary

    Zoologist, author and broadcaster who found fame with his groundbreaking 1967 book The Naked Ape
  • A European nightjar in flight

    ‘How much have we missed?’: book tunes in to overlooked world of female birdsong

    Authors set out to correct under-representation of female sounds – and found some surprising revelations

    • Space: the ultimate wardrobe challenge – in pictures

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    • Other lives
      Rebecca Hall obituary

    • Book of the day
      Original Sin by Kathryn Paige Harden review – are criminals born or made?

March 2026

  • Silhouette of man holding computer with light coming out from screen

    Book of the day
    We Know You Can Pay a Million by Anja Shortland review – the terrifying new world of ransomware

    Criminals extorting money online have created huge businesses, complete with branding and HR
  • Forestry scientist and conservationist Suzanne Simard.

    Book of the day
    When the Forest Breathes by Suzanne Simard review – the Indiana Jones of trees returns

    The author of Finding the Mother Tree is back with an inspiring call to the next generation of ecologists

    • Book of the day
      The Infinity Machine by Sebastian Mallaby review – the story of the man who changed the world

    • ‘My ideas are a little revolutionary’: ecologist Suzanne Simard on intelligent forests, the climate and her critics

    • Do Not Go Gentle by Kathleen Stock review – the case against euthanasia

February 2026

  • Wistman’s Wood in Dartmoor, Devon.

    Book of the day
    Ancient by Luke Barley review – the secret history of Britain’s woodlands

    A former ranger tells the story of how the UK’s forests intimately shaped – and were shaped by – its people
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    The Unfragile Mind by Gavin Francis review – a GP’s guide to mental health

    Powerful case studies can’t make up for this book’s superficiality when it comes to the broader issues

    • Meredith Hooper obituary

    • Book of the day
      A World Appears by Michael Pollan review – a kaleidoscopic exploration of consciousness

    • ‘I’m the psychedelic confessor’: the man who turned a generation on to hallucinogens returns with a head-spinning book about consciousness

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