Science

Science (from the Latin scientia, meaning “knowledge”) is the effort to discover, and increase human understanding of how the physical world works. Through controlled methods, science uses observable physical evidence of natural phenomena to collect data, and analyzes this information to explain what and how things work.

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The Ravenmaster: My Life with the Ravens at the Tower of London
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe: How to Know What's Really Real in a World Increasingly Full of Fake
On the Future: Prospects for Humanity
The Sawbones Book: The Hilarious, Horrifying Road to Modern Medicine
Nine Pints: A Journey Through the Money, Medicine, and Mysteries of Blood
The Sun Is Kind of a Big Deal
Plight of the Living Dead: What Real-Life Zombies Reveal about Our World--And Ourselves
Putting the Science in Fiction: Expert Advice for Writing with Authenticity in Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Other Genres
The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2018
The Mystery of the Exploding Teeth and Other Curiosities from the History of Medicine
I Don't Want to Go to Sleep
Dr. Jo: How Sara Josephine Baker Saved the Lives of America's Children
Einstein's Shadow: A Black Hole, a Band of Astronomers, and the Quest to See the Unseeable
18 Miles: The Epic Drama of Our Atmosphere and Its Weather
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  • This Is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor
    The Fifth Risk
    Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
    Unsheltered
    Brief Answers to the Big Questions
    Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
    Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
    The Other Einstein
    The Overstory
    Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
    Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
    When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing
    The Coming Storm
    The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women
    How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence
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    A Brief History of Time
    A Short History of Nearly Everything
    The Selfish Gene
    The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
    Cosmos
    The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
    The Origin of Species
    What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
    The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
    Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
    Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
    "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character
    The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
    Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
    The Grand Design

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    “ The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science. ”
    ― Albert Einstein, The World as I See It

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