What’s Eating the Universe?, by Paul Davies Cait MacPhee praises a rather-too-rapid tour of the frontiers of physical knowledge By Cait MacPhee 14 October
The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking), by Katie Mack Cait MacPhee enjoys a tour of the disaster scenarios that put even a pandemic into perspective By Cait MacPhee 3 September
Dr Space Junk vs The Universe: Archaeology and the Future, by Alice Gorman Cait MacPhee enjoys an Antipodean analysis of the ‘heritage’ generated by space travel By Cait MacPhee 16 January
Finding Our Place in the Universe: How We Discovered Laniakea – the Milky Way’s Home, by Hélène Courtois Cait MacPhee enjoys a fascinating tour of our not-too-local neighbourhood By Cait MacPhee 6 June
What is Real? The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics, by Adam Becker This defence of quantum physics replaces one problem with another, writes Cait MacPhee By Cait MacPhee 5 July
The Little Book of Black Holes, by Steven S. Gubser and Frans Pretorius Go with Alice and Bob to visit mysterious objects that also come in white, says Cait MacPhee By Cait MacPhee 26 October
The Ascent of Gravity: The Quest to Understand the Force that Explains Everything, by Marcus Chown Deft hands make light work of the incomplete ‘jigsaw’ that is physics, says Cait MacPhee By Cait MacPhee 15 June
The Origins of Everything in 100 Pages (More or Less), by David Bercovici Cait MacPhee on a gallop through the history of the universe, the planets, life on Earth and more By Cait MacPhee 12 January
The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning and the Universe Itself, by Sean Carroll Cait MacPhee delves in to the stories we use to explain the simple and complex world around us By Cait MacPhee 6 October
Lab Girl, by Hope Jahren Book of the week: A spirited palaeobotanist’s memoir splices flora with friendship and family, says Cait MacPhee By Cait MacPhee 5 May
A Survival Guide to the Misinformation Age: Scientific Habits of Mind, by David Helfand Cait MacPhee on back-of-envelope calculations and other tools to assess value and assumptions By Cait MacPhee 11 February
The Only Woman in the Room: Why Science Is Still a Boys’ Club, by Eileen Pollack Cait MacPhee on personal accounts of gender trouble in the sciences By Cait MacPhee 19 November
Houston, We Have a Narrative: Why Science Needs Story, by Randy Olson Researchers must tell a good tale about their work without skewing the science, Cait MacPhee says By Cait MacPhee 22 October
A Beautiful Question: Finding Nature’s Deep Design, by Frank Wilczek Cait MacPhee on the role of aesthetics in physical exploration By Cait MacPhee 23 July
