Tim Edensor begins by examining the effects of daylight on our perception of landscape, drawing on artworks, particular landscapes, and architectural practice. He then considers the ways in which illumination is often contested and can be used to express power, looking at how capitalist, class, ethnic, military, and state power use lighting to reinforce their authority over space.

Uploaded June

In Into the Unknown, astrophysicist Kelsey Johnson takes us to the edge of scientific understanding about the universe: What caused the Big Bang? What happens inside black holes? Are there other dimensions?

Uploaded June 2025

Following in the footsteps of passionate hobbyists, ground-breaking scientists and intrepid adventurers, Joshua Howgego takes a rollicking ride through the world of meteorite hunting.

Uploaded June 2025

The Forgotten Genius of Physics, a Work on Marian Smoluchowski aims to introduce the outstanding physicist and philosopher to a wider circle of readers. His research formed the basis of a new branch of mathematics - statistical physics. He is considered the creator of the discipline dealing with the application of probability theory in research in physics.

Uploaded June 2025

Impressive events of magnetic energy release, such as solar and stellar flares and coronal mass ejections, take place in the atmospheric layers above a star's photosphere. These magnetic-activity events are closely related to the dynamics of subsurface convection zones inside the star.

Uploaded June 2025

The Search for Life explores the possibility of other life in the Universe, from the prospect of ancient bacteria locked away in dried up lakebeds on Mars to the likelihood of contacting an interstellar civilisation on the far side of the galaxy.

Uploaded June 2025

The early years of the nineteenth century saw an intriguing yet little-known scientific advance catapult a shy young Quaker to the dizzy heights of fame. The Invention of Clouds tells the extraordinary story of an amateur meteorologist, Luke Howard, and his groundbreaking work to define what had hitherto been random and unknowable structures--clouds.

Uploaded March 2025

Volume 1 presents important new material on the young Einstein. Over half the documents made available here were discovered by the editors, including a significant group of over fifty letters that Einstein exchanged with Mileva Maric, his fellow student and future wife. These letters, together with other previously unpublished documents, provide an entirely new view of Einstein's youth.

Uploaded March 2025

"Statistical Mechanics of Mean-Field Disordered Systems: A Hamilton-Jacobi Approach" by Tomas Dominguez and Jean-Christophe Mourrat presents new mathematical techniques for studying mean-field systems with disordered interactions, focusing on high-dimensional statistical inference and spin glasses, aiming to determine free energy using a Hamilton-Jacobi equation approach.

Uploaded March 2025

The James Webb Space Telescope is transforming the universe right before our eyes—and here, for the first time, is the inside account of how the mission originated, how it performs its miracles of science, and what its revolutionary images are revealing. Pillars of Creation tells the story of one of the greatest scientific achievements in the history of civilization, a $10 billion instrument with a staggeringly ambitious goal: unlocking the secrets of the cosmos.

Uploaded March 2025