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Eugenia Cheng wanders through the wonderful world of infinite mathematics in this extract from her book Beyond Infinity, shortlisted for the 2017 Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize.
The Cassini spacecraft has opened our eyes to the wonders of Saturn and its moons like Enceladus and Titan with some amazing pictures - here are some of our favourites of the planet, its rings and moons, including the last one ever taken.
Shortlisted for the 2017 Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize, In Pursuit of Memory details Joseph Jebelli’s personal journey to understand Alzheimer’s disease.
Shortlisted for the 2017 Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize, Ed Yong’s book I Contain Multitudes explores how important the microbiome is to our survival – here’s an extract from the introduction.
Peter Godfrey-Smith explores the great depths of cephalopod intelligence in his book Other Minds, now shortlisted for the 2017 Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize.
This week Cassini’s two-decade-long mission comes to a spectacular close. But before the craft ends its trip with a fatal plunge into Saturn, let's look at some of the incredible discoveries it has made.
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