University of Wisconsin Professor of Psychology Richard J. Davidson and science journalist Sharon Begley describe six distinct emotional dimensions, each with a defined and measurable neural signature. Each person’s unique combination of the six dimensions together comprise what Davidson calls “emotional style” — the essence of our personality and the reflection of how we live and respond to our experiences

Want to build your own satellite and launch it into space? It’s easier than you may think. The first in a series of four books, this do-it-yourself guide shows you the essential steps needed to design a base picosatellite platform — complete with a solar-powered computer-controlled assembly — tough enough to withstand a rocket launch and survive in orbit for three months.

Lewis is a long-time college textbook author and magazine freelancer with a Ph.D. in genetics. Her new book, The Forever Fix: Gene Therapy and the Boy Who Saved It, tells the true story of 8-year-old Corey Haas, cured of hereditary blindness with gene therapy in 2008 in just four days, when the sunlight at the zoo hurt his eyes, for the very first time.

We are most familiar with the viruses that give us colds or the flu, but viruses also cause a vast range of other diseases, including one disorder that makes people sprout branch-like growths as if they were trees. Viruses have been a part of our lives for so long, in fact, that we are actually part virus: The human genome contains more DNA from viruses than our own genes.