Natural sciences

Through the vivid, true stories of five people who journeyed into and out of addiction, a renowned neuroscientist explains why the "disease model" of addi...

The book by Doctor of Biological Sciences F. P. Filatov “The Mark of the Creator” is dedicated to one of the versions of the origin of life on Earth, argued ...

A preeminent scientist -- and the world's most prominent atheist -- asserts the irrationality of belief in God and the grievous harm religion has inflicte...

Yerba mate (Paraguayan tea) is known in Latin America and the Middle East. This drink is 9000 years old! Before you is the only book in Russian, after readin...

The desire for a society of their own kind is a common feature of all the inhabitants of our planet - from microorganisms to Homo Sapiens. By becoming a memb...

Take some heat off the complexity of thermodynamics

Does the mere thought of thermodynamics make you sweat? It doesn't have to! This hands-on guide...

Inheriting the mantle of revolutionary biologist from Darwin, Watson, and Crick, Richard Dawkins forced an enormous change in the way we see ourselves and...

The final, fifth volume of the author’s complete works includes the story “So Bored in Utopia”, the stories “The One Who Came Out of the Big Water”, “Stains ...

View a collection of videos on Professor Wilson entitled "On the Relation of Science and the Humanities"

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Who was the immediate ancestor of man? What does a chain with Homo sapiens at the end look like, and are all its links in place? Why do some discoveries turn...

One of the world’s most important scientists, Edward O. Wilson is also an abundantly talented writer who has twice won the Pulitzer Prize. In this, his mo...