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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  • Genesis by Guido Tonelli
    Genesis: The Story of How Everything Began
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    Release date: Apr 13, 2021
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  • Second Nature by Nathaniel Rich
    Second Nature

    Release date: Apr 06, 2021
    From the author of Losing Earth, a deeply reported and beautifully told exploration of our post-natural world.

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  • When Brains Dream by Antonio Zadra
    When Brains Dream: Exploring the Science and Mystery of Sleep
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  • Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas
    Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art
    The Overstory
    Uncanny Valley
    Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
    Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
    Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle
    The Naturalist (The Naturalist, #1)
    The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women
    The End of October
    Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
    No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference
    A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future
    Caffeine: How Caffeine Created the Modern World
    Sapiens: A Graphic History: The Birth of Humankind (Vol. 1)
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    A Brief History of Time
    A Short History of Nearly Everything
    The Selfish Gene
    Cosmos
    The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
    Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
    Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
    The Origin of Species
    What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
    The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
    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
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    Albert Einstein
    “ The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery each day. —"Old Man's Advice to Youth: 'Never Lose a Holy Curiosity.'" LIFE Magazine (2 May 1955) p. 64 ”
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