Are you blinded by science? There’s so much to know, and it’s changing every day. How can you ever feel up-to-date?

Allow the Library to help you sift through the world of artificial intelligence, climate change, and even the phone in your pocket.

Casual Reading

•  Popular Science Magazine is aimed at the regular, everyday, non-scientist with easily accessible articles. You can read past issues and the most current through the database Flipster. The “Now” section will provide you with reviews on the newest gadgets on the marketplace. The “Next” section is more news-oriented about ground-breaking innovations and interviews with top thought leaders.
   
•  Nobelprize.org is available from home and  will get you up to speed on who has won the Nobel Prizes for the last few years and what these important discoveries were.

Further Exploration

•  Scientific American is only available at the research libraries. While it provides current products and legal news that can assist researchers, there are many articles that are not beyond the reach of the layperson. Issues go back to 1845 so you can see how far we have come.
   
•  Science.gov is available from home and brings you research and development straight from the horse’s mouth. You can set up alerts for topics of interest and it is easy to search for articles, reports, and notices. Some pages are out of date but they publish up-to-date articles and link to over 36 scientific databases.    

Serious Research

• The American Physical Society Journals are available to access from any library with your card. Physics Journal explains concepts and also has interesting articles for non-researchers. If you really want to dig deep into the world of Physics there are twelve(!) more journals to choose from.
   
• The Scientist is only available at research libraries. It reports on and analyzes the issues and events that impact the world of life scientists. Articles cover a variety of topics such as vaccines on trial, reducing malaria to its constituent parts, and survival in the microfluidic market. (If you know what that means then this is the database for you).

For more reading, check out some of the biggest science-related books from the last couple of years:

• ​​Skeptic: viewing the world with a rational eye by Michael Shermer (2016)
  A collection of essays from his celebrated column in Scientific American

• Cracking the Aging Code: the new science of growing old — and what it means for staying young by Josh Mitteldorf and Dorion Sagan (2016)
  This book will be relevant to everyone at some point in time!

• Grunt: the curious science of humans at war by Mary Roach (2016)
  Roach has been instrumental in bringing science to the masses, getting the most attention for her 2013 book Gulp: adventures on the alimentary canal

• Reality is Not What it Seems: the journey to quantum gravity by Carlo Rovelli and translated from Italian by Simon Carnell and Erica Segre (2017)
  It is a big topic that Rovelli attempts to bring to everyone so it may be difficult at times but it will certainly broaden your knowledge.

• Hidden Figures: the American dream and the untold story of the Black women mathematicians who helped win the space race by Margot Lee Shetterly (2016)
  Recently adapted to a blockbuster film, this book tells the story of amazing Black female minds during a time when segregation was still standard.