plainpicture/Michiru Nakayama Lots of science books will be published over the course of the coming year – tonnes, in fact. After spending last month wading through the books and publisher catalogues that came into our offices, I have decided on the science books that I am most excited about, arranged in categories so it is easy to find what you love throughout the year. Of course, if you are a bit of an omnivore like me, you could end the year an expert in everything from spotting psychopaths to very, very huge numbers. Space Let’s start at a grand scale, with environmental historian Dagomar Degroot’s Ripples on the Cosmic Ocean. He considers how the solar system shaped humanity, whether that’s Martian dust storms sparking stories about aliens, or comet impacts on Jupiter inspiring the first planetary defence strategy. Degroot also looks at human impact on the cosmos, calling for “interplanetary environmentalism” (lovely phrase). We go from grand to even grander, as astrophysicist Emma Chapman’s Radio Universe reveals how we use radio waves to explore the …