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 Mosquito: A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator
The Outlaw Ocean: Journeys Across the Last Untamed Frontier
Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century
End Times: A Brief Guide to the End of the World: Asteroids, Super Volcanoes, Rogue Robots, and More
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    Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
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    No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference
    Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death
    The Overstory
    Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
    Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
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    Prognosis: A Memoir of My Brain
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    The Selfish Gene
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    Cosmos
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    What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
    Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
    The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
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