From friendship in a world of chatbots to what it means to be alive, this month’s new popular science books are asking some ...

The first six months of the year have brought us popular science reads on everything from consciousness to cosmology. Liz ...

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It’s officially summertime, and the season of reading is finally here! Two science writers and voracious readers have compiled their summer reading recommendations, just for Science Friday fans.

From “experimental archaeology” to the mysterious appeal of exploration, the wide-ranging subjects detailed in these titles captivated Smithsonian magazine’s science contributors this year Joe Spring, ...

Joe Spring, Carlyn Kranking, Riley Black, Dan Falk, Bridget Alex and Shi En Kim This year in science was filled with amazing discoveries, sobering stats related to mounting illness and death from ...