- "Reef Madness: Charles Darwin, Alexander Agassiz, and the Meaning of Coral" (2008)
- "The Last Secrets: The Final Mysteries of the Universe" (2009, co-authored with John Gribbin)
- "The Quantum Universe: Everything That Can Happen Does Happen" (2011, co-authored with John Gribbin)
- "The Hidden Life of the Universe: A Journey into the Wild Side of Reality" (2013, co-authored with John Gribbin)
- "The Universe Within: From Quantum Soup to Consciousness" (2015, co-authored with John Gribbin)
- "The Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Our World" (2017, co-authored with Michio Kaku)
- "The Planet Remade: How Geoengineering Could Change the World" (2021)
Articles and Essays:
- "The Quantum Computer: A New Kind of Machine" (Scientific American, 2011)
- "The Mystery of the Missing Baryons" (Scientific American, 2012)
- "The Dark Side of the Universe" (Scientific American, 2013)
- "The Quantum Weirdness of Reality" (Scientific American, 2014)
- "The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence" (Scientific American, 2015)
- "The Future of Artificial Intelligence" (Scientific American, 2016)
- "The Climate Crisis and the Future of Humanity" (Scientific American, 2017)