All the Beautiful Bioreactors

This post was originally published in “Download the Universe,” a multi-author blog about science ebooks edited by Carl Zimmer.

Living Architecture: How Synthetic Biology Can Remake Our Cities and Reshape Our Lives. By Rachel Armstrong.

Reviewed by Annalee Newitz

March 16, 2012

The Solar System: It’s Elementary, My Dear Sherlock

This post was originally published in “Download the Universe,” a multi-author blog about science ebooks edited by Carl Zimmer.

The Solar System. By Marcus Chown. Published by Touch Press, 2010.

Reviewed by Jennifer Ouellette

March 14, 2012

This post was originally published in “Download the Universe,” a multi-author blog about science ebooks edited by Carl Zimmer.

Gutenberg the Geek: History’s First Technology Entrepreneur and Silicon Valley’s Patron Saint. By Jeff Jarvis.

Guest reviewed by Kevin Bonham

March 12, 2012

This post was originally published in “Download the Universe,” a multi-author blog about science ebooks edited by Carl Zimmer.

Natural History: Mammals – Carnivores. Published by DK Books, 2011.

Reviewed by John Timmer

March 9, 2012

This post was originally published in “Download the Universe,” a multi-author blog about science ebooks edited by Carl Zimmer.

The Stir of Waters: Radiation, Risk, and the Radon Spa of Jáchymov. By Paul Voosen.

Guest reviewed by Ann Finkbeiner

March 7, 2012