Autumn Books - Nature Magazine

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Illustrations for the yearly section ‘Autumn Books’ of Nature Magazine, the world's leading multidisciplinary science journal that has been publishing for 150 years

History of Technology - Article featuring the book American Lucifers by Jeremy Zallen. It posits that the search for artificial light (whale oil, kerosene, gas, incandescence, electricity) was as harmful and chequered as the history of sugar, which enslaved hundreds of thousands of people

Epidemiology - How pandemics shape social evolution

Marine Sciences - Article about two books: "Neptune’s Laboratory: Fantasy, Fear, and Science at Sea by Antony Adler and "Reef Life: An Underwater Memoir" by Callum Roberts. Two books, totally immersed, imagining different takes on the state of the seas

Portrait of Harold Urey. He was one of the most famous American scientists of the twentieth century. Awarded the Nobel Prize in 1934 for his discovery of deuterium and heavy water

Citizen Science - About the book "The Crowd and the Cosmos" by Lintott. Zooniverse, a web-based project allows hundreds of thousands of enthusiastic volunteers to contribute to Science and help scientists to process overwhelming scientific data. In this book, Lintott describes the exciting discoveries that people all over the world have made, from galaxies to pulsars, exoplanets to moons, and from penguin behaviour to old ship's logs