Featured Book: Colliding Worlds, by Arthur I. Miller. Over the last 50 years, the world of modern art has been completely transformed, Arthur I. Miller argues, because of the influence that modern science has had on art and artists.

And on the nightstand: Logicomix, by Apostolos Doxiadis and Christos Papadimitriou; and Only the Longest Threads, by Tasneem Zehra Husain.

Featured Book: Our Mathematical Universe, by Max Tegmark.

How many universes are there, anyway? Physicist Max Tegmark says there could be an infinite number of universes, and he argues the case in his latest book.

And on the nightstand: A Universe from Nothing, by Lawrence Krauss; and Me Myself and Why, by Jennifer Oullette.

It's one of the largest and most ambitious observatories ever conceived: The James Webb Space Telescope, successor to the Hubble Space Telescope. I report for Quirks & Quarks on my recent behind-the-scenes tour of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, where the JWST is taking shape.

A group called the Nonhuman Rights Project is lobbying for “personhood” for chimpanzees and other high-functioning animals – but what are the philosophical implications? My report for The Philosopher’s Zone on Australia’s ABC radio network.