‘The best science writers can move and thrill us just as much as Austen or Dickens’, said judge Sarah Waters when announcing the shortlist
Worried about your maths skills? Obsessed by the Higgs boson? Or the genetic code? Or anxious about your feeble grasp on the role of quantum physics in biology? Or what humans are doing to the planet? Or are you just worried to distraction full stop? Like science itself, all six shortlisted books in the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books are chronicles of the hunt for answers.
Or are you worried about how many Guardian bloggers, contributors or former staff journalists you can identify in one single shortlist? Below are the candidates for the 2015 prize in alphabetical order, with links to reviews of their shortlisted work:
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