Forest fires, like those currently burning in many parts of British Columbia, are consistently growing larger and have been happening more often as our planet warms. However, while the loss and sadness often associated...

Artificial intelligence. This pair of words in most of us — myself included — stirs up images of pale-faced androids on starships and disobedient computers named HAL. John Anderson, an Artificial intelligence (AI) researcher...

Books on science can normally be sorted into one of two categories. The bad tend to be very complicated, using all sorts of exclusionary language, poorly explained abstract concepts and weird graphs. The good,...