Cutting-Edge Science

Up-to-the-Minute Discoveries, Facts and Inventions

Colin Barras

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English

Welbeck
08 August 2019

Popular science; Astronomy, space & time; Earth sciences

How did the atom bomb help save the elephant? Have we found the secret to eternal youth? Could a parasite be manipulating you right now?

This dazzling collection of stories reveals the key recent breakthroughs in science, across all fields. Inside you will meet the killers lurking in Earth's ice, the super-coral that could save our seas and the neuroscientists hunting ghosts. You will travel beyond our galaxy to worlds where the sun sets twice, and beyond our time to a future where the Internet is unhackable and chickenosaurs roam the land.

Divided into sections covering physics, space, humanity, the brain, plants and animals, and linking stories from different fields, Cutting-Edge Science offers a boundless journey of discovery for anyone with a passion for the world around them. Prepare to be shocked and amazed on every page.

By: Colin Barras
Imprint: Welbeck
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 236mm, Width: 184mm, Spine: 16mm
Weight: 600g
ISBN: 9781787393097
ISBN 10: 1787393097
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 08 August 2019
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Colin Barras holds degrees in geology, palaeobiology and science communication, and a PhD in palaeontology. He has been technology news editor, life science, and biomedical news editor of New Scientist and continues to write for the magazine on a weekly basis. In 2012/2013, he was employed by CERN to write Hunting the Higgs, an introductory book on the science of the Large Hadron Collider and the discovery of the Higgs Boson. He also works for BBC Worldwide, writing and editing for the BBC Future and BBC Earth websites, and is frequently asked to comment on scientific breakthroughs.