The shortlist has been selected for the £25,000 (about $32,110) 2024 Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize, which honors popular science writing and authors. The winner will be announced October 24. The shortlist:
A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through? by Kelly and Zach Weinersmith
The Last of Its Kind: The Search for the Great Auk and the Discovery of Extinction by Gísli Pálsson
Why We Die: The New Science of Ageing and the Quest for Immortality by Venki Ramakrishnan
Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution by Cat Bohannon
Everything Is Predictable: How Bayes' Remarkable Theorem Explains the World by Tom Chivers
Your Face Belongs to Us: The Secretive Startup Dismantling Your Privacy by Kashmir Hill
