The Essential Guide
The Essential Guide #7: The Human Brain
A mass of some 86 billion neurons forming hundreds of trillions of connections, the human brain is the most complex object in the known universe – and one of the...
A mass of some 86 billion neurons forming hundreds of trillions of connections, the human brain is the most complex object in the known universe – and one of the most mysterious and fascinating.
The seventh New Scientist Essential Guide allows you to get your head round all we know and don't know – from the basic structure of the brain and insights into how it works from neural imaging studies, to the mysteries of memory and intelligence and the nature of mental health issues and neurodegenerative disease.
The Essential Guide #10: Einstein's Universe
How did the universe begin and how is it changing? What is it made of? Do black holes exist? Albert Einstein's space-and-time-warping theories of relativity have revolutionised our view of...
The Essential Guide #9: Nutrition and Diet
Why is eating healthily such a problem? What is truly good and bad for us? Is there such a thing as a sustainable diet? Few topics are so personal as...
The Essential Guide #8: Climate Change
Climate change is the greatest challenge of our age – arguably of any age, measured by the size and scope of the societal changes needed to mitigate it and adapt...
The Essential Guide #6: Evolution
Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection is arguably the most important scientific idea ever – radical in its simplicity, yet infinitely complex in its implications for life...
The Essential Guide #5: Quantum Physics
Quantum theory is our most rigorously tested theory of basic physical reality bar none – and the most mind-blowing. Delve into the challenges its poses to our intuitions, from its...
The Essential Guide #4: Our Human Story
Few stories have been so fundamentally rewritten in the past decades as our own human story. New fossils and genetic techniques have replaced the simple "out of Africa" picture with...
The Essential Guide #3: Human Health
Questions of how we stay fit and healthy have rarely been so high up the agenda as in these times of coronavirus. Covering everything from immunity and infectious disease to...
The Essential Guide #2: Artificial Intelligence
With bewildering speed, AI has advanced to underpin many aspects of our everyday lives – and that's just the beginning. This second New Scientist Essential Guide brings together and expands...