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** Previously published in hardcover as Love in the Time of Algorithms **Once considered the realm of the lonely and desperate, sites like eHarmony...

Bill Gates recently told Wired that if he were a teenager today, he would be hacking biology. "If you want to change the world in some big way," he...

Today’s scientists are radically exceeding the boundaries of evolution and engineering entirely novel creatures. Cutting edge “synthetic biology” m...

How our fast-forward minds make something out of nothing We all know expectations matter—in school, in sports, in the stock market. From a healing ...

“A pleasant, chatty book on a fascinating subject.” — Kirkus ReviewsOctopuses have been captivating humans for as long as we have been catching the...

People spent the twentieth century obsessed with the future. We created technologies that would help connect us faster, gather news, map the planet...

How much control do we have over love? Much less than we like to think. All that mystery, all that poetry, all those complex behaviors sur­rounding...

New insights from the science of science Facts change all the time. Smoking has gone from doctor recommended to deadly. We used to think the Earth ...

Counterintuitive insights about building successful relationships- based on research into human-computer interaction. Books like Predictably Irrati...

“A thorough yet thoroughly digestible book on the ubiquity of data gathering and the unraveling of personal privacy.” —Daniel Pink, author of Drive...

In a world where the quest for eternal youth seems unattainable, David Stipp offers a captivating exploration into the scientific battle against ag...