The Technology Book is a guided tour of the technology of the modern world. As part of the author team, I had a brief to write about technologies developed between 1880 and 1915, a period that saw the advent of a glittering catalogue of mod cons including public electricity supply, skyscrapers, bicycles, cars, wind turbines,…
Category: BOOKS
Chemistry books for Dorling Kindersley are among my latest popular science titles. The Periodic Table has just been shortlisted for the British Book Awards
Since September 2024, I’ve been working on science books for Dorling Kindersley, starting with their new edition of The Periodic Table. The book arranges the elements in order of discovery, revealing how each came to light and which minerals are sources. The entries also take time to explore the orbital structures of each element, revealing…
Quantum Physics: my new book is about the mind-bending science that’s changing how we understand space, time, matter and reality
From light and matter to time and space… in the last 100 years, there has been a revolution in the way physicists understand almost everything. Why? Well, at the most fundamental level of existence – on the quantum scale of subatomic particles and forces – nothing works according to familiar rules of mechanics, electromagnetism, or…