Books & Arts in 2016

Robert P. Crease assesses Sean Carroll's attempt to construct morality out of quantum field theory.

Barbara Kiser reviews five of the week's best science picks.

Michael Ross Canfield enjoys a chronicle of the statesman's natural-history legacy.

Michael D. Gordin reviews a history of the Soviets' failed national computer network.

Barbara Kiser reviews five of the week's best science picks.

Jennifer Rohn delights in the discovery-laden memoir of palaeobiologist Hope Jahren's life scientific.

Jill Cook examines archaeologist Jean Clottes's theories about what motivated Ice Age artists.

Barbara Kiser reviews five of the week's best science picks.

John M. Marzluff extols a rich history of ornithology's debt to egg collecting.

Joan B. Silk examines Frans de Waal's treatise on the evolution of animal intelligence.

Andrew Robinson marvels afresh at the self-taught mathematical genius in a new biopic.

Hedderik van Rijn weighs up an erudite but idiosyncratic survey of how we perceive life passing.

Anthony King views video games for pigs and urban 'aquaponics' at Science Gallery Dublin's latest show.

Athene Donald weighs up a survey of workplace changes designed to avoid gender bias.

In linear economics, objects of desire from skyscrapers to paperclips are waste waiting to happen. Now, linearity is reaching the end of the line: designers are looking to the loop and redefining refuse as resource.

Barbara Kiser reviews five of the week's best science picks.

David Hurst Thomas explores the controversies over collections of human remains and plundered artefacts.

Vladimir Lukhtanov delights in a treatise on the luminary's contribution to biology.

Margaret Myers on a study of the impacts of the country's presence in Latin America.

Stuart Pimm examines E. O. Wilson's grand vision for an Earth shared equally between humanity and nature.