New eBook. The Microbiome: Your Inner Ecosystem Zooms in on Our Hidden Helpers

Our Bodies, Our Bacteria

We harbor roughly the same number of microbes as we have cells. This complex ecosystem is crucial to our health, affecting many processes including immunity, child development and bone density regulation. Research in this area has exploded, and in this eBook, we highlight some of the most exciting work on how the microbiome develops, its influence on brain and behavior and implications in both contributing to and treating various disorders.

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Mysteries of the Mind Do we have free will? How do we navigate our surroundings? In this eBook, we examine the latest research into the workings of nature's most complex organ, including how the brain gives rise to consciousness, how babies think, how brain training may work for certain groups and more.

Genetic Engineering: Progress and Controversy From its beginnings in the 1970s to the post-CRISPR revolution, the field of genetic engineering has come a long way. In this eBook, we examine how CRISPR and other approaches are being investigated to treat disease, mind-blowing research in synthetic biology, controversial efforts in modifying crops and saving species and more.

Climate Change: Planet Under Pressure From increasingly severe storms to collapsing coral reefs to the displacement of Syrian citizens, in this eBook we examine the effects of Earth's changing climate on weather systems, ecosystems and human habitability and what this means for our future.

Return to Reason: The Science of Thought Why do facts fail to change people's minds? In this eBook, we examine how we form our beliefs and maintain them with a host of cognitive biases, the difference between intelligence and thinking rationally and some solutions for how to overcome these obstacles both in reasoning with others and in dealing with our own prejudices.

Ultimate Physics: From Quarks to the Cosmos From the tiniest particles to massive galaxy clusters to a universal theory of everything, this eBook examines some of the strangest discoveries in physics - and clearly illustrates how answers often lead to more questions and open up new paths to insight.

Music and the Brain Neuroscientists have shown that music recruits nearly every area of the brain. Here, we examine the latest imaging studies and discuss music's role in learning math and language, promoting social connections and treating brain injuries.

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