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.

Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know
Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death
How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems
We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast
Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime
For the Love of Men: A New Vision for Mindful Masculinity
Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control
Fentanyl, Inc.: How Rogue Chemists Are Creating the Deadliest Wave of the Opioid Epidemic
Wildhood: The Epic Journey from Adolescence to Adulthood in Humans and Other Animals
The Math of Life and Death: 7 Mathematical Principles That Shape Our Lives
Surfacing
Rebooting AI: Building Artificial Intelligence We Can Trust
What Miss Mitchell Saw
Life: The First Four Billion Years: The Story of Life from the Big Bang to the Evolution of Humans
Ice: Chilling Stories from a Disappearing World
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    This Is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor
    Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
    Permanent Record
    No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference
    Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death
    The Overstory
    The Only Woman in the Room
    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
    Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
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    A Short History of Nearly Everything
    The Selfish Gene
    The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
    Cosmos
    Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
    The Origin of Species
    The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
    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
    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
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