Abbey's Science Central

Milk

By: Matthew Evans
Narrated by: Matthew Evans
Length: 7 hours 47 minutes

A powerful, entertaining and, at times, eviscerating commentary on the most controversial of original superfoods.

Milk. It's in our coffee, on our cereal. We see it in processed form – yoghurt, butter, cheese, skimmed and lactose free. It's there in almond form, or made from oats or soy, and is as lauded as the 'perfect' food or lambasted as not... Read more

Moral AI

And How We Get There

By: Jana Schaich Borg, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong & Vincent Conitzer
Narrated by: Rory Alexander
Length: 7 hours 42 minutes

Brought to you by Penguin.

A reassuring and thought-provoking guide to all the big questions about AI and ethicsShould robots ever be considered free? Will computers transcend human intelligence? And what can we do to make sure AI is safe?

The artificial intelligence revolution has begun. Today, there are self-driving cars on our streets,... Read more

Cave of Bones

By: Lee Berger & John Hawks
Narrated by: Lee Berger
Length: 5 hours 43 minutes

In the summer of 2022, Lee Berger lost 50 pounds in order to wriggle though impossibly small openings in the Rising Star cave complex in South Africa—spaces where his team has been unearthing the remains of Homo naledi, a proto-human likely to have coexisted with Homo sapiens some 250,000 years ago. The lead researcher on the site, still Berger... Read more

Curious Species

How Animals Made Natural History

By: Whitney Barlow Robles
Narrated by: Daniela Acitelli
Length: 9 hours 57 minutes

Can corals build worlds? Do rattlesnakes enchant? What is a raccoon, and what might it know? Animals and the questions they raised thwarted human efforts to master nature during the so-called Enlightenment—a historical moment when rigid classification pervaded the study of natural history, people traded in people, and imperial avarice wrapped... Read more

Zero to Birth

How the Human Brain Is Built

By: W.A. Harris
Narrated by: Michael Page
Length: 7 hours 30 minutes

A revelatory tale of how the human brain develops, from conception to birth and beyond



By the time a baby is born, its brain is equipped with billions of intricately crafted neurons wired together through trillions of interconnections to form a compact and breathtakingly efficient supercomputer. Zero to Birth takes you on an extraordinary journey... Read more

Into the Dark

What darkness is and why it matters

By: Jacqueline Yallop
Narrated by: Sophie Roberts
Length: 7 hours 24 minutes

Can you remember the first time you encountered true darkness? The kind that remains as black and inky whether your eyes are open or closed? Where you can't see your hand in front of your face?

Jacqueline Yallop can. It was in an unfamiliar bedroom while holidaying in Yorkshire as a child, and ever since then she has been fascinated by the dark,... Read more

The Last of Its Kind

The Search for the Great Auk and the Discovery of Extinction

By: Gisli Palsson
Narrated by: Paul Woodson
Length: 8 hours 38 minutes

The great auk is one of the most tragic and documented examples of extinction. A flightless bird that bred primarily on the remote islands of the North Atlantic, the last of its kind were killed in Iceland in 1844. Gísli Pálsson draws on firsthand accounts from the Icelanders who hunted the last great auks to bring to life a bygone age of... Read more

Interstellar Tours

A Guide to the Universe from Your Starship Window

By: Brian Clegg
Narrated by: Keith Wickham
Length: 7 hours 43 minutes

Brian Clegg's acclaimed popular science book Inflight Science explored the science experienced on a plane flight. Interstellar Tours takes that concept and goes large. It takes the reader on a tour of our galaxy on the starship Endurance.

That vessel itself is science fiction. But the phenomena you will visit, from the vast nebulae that are... Read more

The Tomb of the Mili Mongga

Fossils, Folklore, and Adventures at the Edge of Reality

By: Samuel Turvey
Narrated by: Clifford Samuel
Length: 11 hours 49 minutes

Bloomsbury presents The Tomb of the Mili Mongga by Samuel Turvey, read by Clifford Samuel.

‘The Tomb of the Mili Mongga lives up to its magnificent billing’ DAILY TELEGRAPH

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A fossil expedition becomes a thrilling search for a mythical beast deep in the Indonesian forest – and a fascinating look at how fossils, folklore, and biodiversity... Read more

Under Alien Skies

A Sightseer's Guide to the Universe

By: Philip Plait PhD
Narrated by: Philip Plait PhD
Length: 9 hours 18 minutes

A rip-roaring tour of the cosmos with the Bad Astronomer, revealing the sky as never seen before―from everywhere but Earth.
How would Saturn’s rings look from a spaceship sailing just above them? If you were falling into a black hole, what’s the last thing you’d see before your spaghettification? What would it be like to visit the faraway places... Read more

How to Win Friends and Influence Fungi

Collected Quirks of Science, Tech, Engineering, and Math from Nerd Nite

By: Dr. Chris Balakrishnan & Matt Wasowski
Narrated by: Dr. Chris Balakrishnan, Isabel Pask, Maggie Thompson, Matt Wasowski, Shahjehan Khan & Torian Brackett
Length: 9 hours 27 minutes

This program features multicast narration.

In the vein of acclaimed popular-science bestsellers such as Atlas Obscura, Astrophysics for Young People in a Hurry, The Way Things Work, What If?, and Undeniable, the co-founders of the global science organization Nerd Nite bring listeners a collection of wacky, yet fascinating STEM topics.

For 20... Read more

Magisteria

The Entangled Histories of Science & Religion

By: Nicholas Spencer
Narrated by: John Sackville
Length: 16 hours 18 minutes

Science and religion have always been at each other’s throats, right?Most things you ‘know’ about science and religion are myths or half-truths that grew up in the last years of the nineteenth century and remain widespread today.The true history of science and religion is a human one. It’s about the role of religion in inspiring, and strangling,... Read more

To Boldly Go Where No Book Has Gone Before

A Joyous Journey Through All of Science

By: Luke O'Neill
Narrated by: Luke O'Neill
Length: 10 hours 21 minutes

Brought to you by Penguin.

A spellbinding and often hilarious history of (almost) the entirety of science from world-renowned immunologist Luke O'Neill

How did life begin?
What does the warping of spacetime in a black hole actually look like?
And what's happening on the 4,800 exoplanets beyond our solar system?

In our muddled era of conspiracy... Read more

Accidental

The Greatest (Unintentional) Science Breakthroughs and How They Changed The World

By: Tim James
Narrated by: Tim James
Length: 5 hours 16 minutes

'Who said science was dry? Certainly not Tim James' New York Post
'James writes with infectious enthusiasm and optimism' Kirkus Reviews
'A science teacher by profession, Mr. James knows how to get his audience's attention' Wall Street Journal
'Humorous, yet deep' Professor Charles Antoine

A rip-roaring adventure through science gone wrong, and... Read more

The Economy of Algorithms

AI and the Rise of the Digital Minions

By: Marek Kowalkiewicz
Narrated by: Stephen Perring
Length: 7 hours 58 minutes

An informed general readership, including students and interested non-specialists. Academics from business, sociology, politics, management, science and technology studies and emerging fields such as critical algorithm studies will find it a stimulating and entertaining read. Reflective practitioners who are beginning to question the potential... Read more

Space

The Human Story

By: Tim Peake
Length: 10 hours 17 minutes

Brought to you by Penguin.

From bestselling author and astronaut Tim Peake, the captivating story of humans in space.

Only 628 people in human history have left Earth. In Space: The Human Story, astronaut Tim Peake traces the lives of these remarkable men and women who have forged the way, from Yuri Gagarin to Neil Armstrong, from Valentina... Read more

Superspy Science

Science, Death and Tech in the World of James Bond

By: Kathryn Harkup
Narrated by: Nicky Diss
Length: 11 hours 34 minutes

Bloomsbury presents Superspy Science by Kathryn Harkup, read by Nicky Diss.

‘Witty and well researched.’ THE TIMES
‘A scientific dose of reality.’ MAIL ON SUNDAY
‘A fun and comprehensive exploration.’ LINDA McROBBIE
‘Endlessly fascinating.’ LIBRARY JOURNAL

The science behind James Bond’s exploits – armaments, tactics, plots and enemy tech.

The... Read more

The Life of Birds

By: David Attenborough
Narrated by: David Attenborough
Length: 9 hours 59 minutes

A fully updated new edition of David Attenborough’s bestselling classic. BIRDS. 11,000 species, the most widespread of all animals: on icebergs, in the Sahara or under the sea, at home in our gardens or flying for over a year at a time. Earthbound, we can only look and listen, enjoying their... Read more

Water for All

Global Solutions for a Changing Climate

By: David Sedlak
Narrated by: Gary Tiedemann
Length: 12 hours 12 minutes

It is not your imagination: water crises are more frequent. Our twentieth-century systems for providing the water that grows food, sustains cities, and supports healthy ecosystems are failing to meet the demands of growing population and the challenges brought on by climate change. But the grim news reports—of empty reservoirs, withering crops,... Read more

The Song of the Cell

An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human

By: Siddhartha Mukherjee
Narrated by: Abhishek Sharma
Length: 18 hours 8 minutes

From Pulitzer Prize-winning and #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Emperor of All Maladies and The Gene, The Song of The Cell is the third book in this extraordinary writer's exploration of what it means to be human-rich with Siddhartha Mukherjee's revelatory and exhilarating stories of scientists, doctors, and all the patients whose... Read more