15 Ideas You Need to Understand: New Scientist: The Collection;

Information is beautiful and knowledge is power. There’s not much more satisfying in life than understanding a profound and important idea. And the most profound and important ideas of all are found in the world of science.

Scientists often dedicate their lives to accumulating knowledge about their chosen field, and adding new knowledge through experiment and theory. Many of them also revel in communicating their work to others. Now you can tap the expertise of fifteen leading scientist-communicators in their own words.

This issue of New Scientist: The Collection will tell you everything you need to know about 15 of the most important areas of modern science, written by the scientists who know them inside out. From the theory of everything to relativity, human origins, language and more, expertise is at your fingertips.