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.

The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
Remember: The Science of Memory and the Art of Forgetting
Women in White Coats: How the First Women Doctors Changed the World of Medicine
The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred
After: A Doctor Explores What Near-Death Experiences Reveal about Life and Beyond
Cosmic Queries: StarTalk's Guide to Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We're Going
Gory Details: Adventures from the Dark Side of Science
Unwinding Anxiety: New Science Shows How to Break the Cycles of Worry and Fear to Heal Your Mind
Hooked: Food, Free Will, and How the Food Giants Exploit Our Addictions
Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX
Beloved Beasts: Fighting for Life in an Age of Extinction
Genius Makers: The Mavericks Who Brought AI to Google, Facebook, and the World
The Inevitable: Dispatches on the Right to Die
A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence
The Loneliest Polar Bear
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    The Truth About Lies: The Illusion of Honesty and the Evolution of Deceit
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    The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science

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    Mom Genes: Inside the New Science of Our Ancient Maternal Instinct

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    The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
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    The Overstory
    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
    Beyond Order: 12 More Rules For Life
    Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle
    Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow
    Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
    Chatter: The Voice in Our Head, Why It Matters, and How to Harness It
    The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women
    The Other Einstein
    Brief Answers to the Big Questions
    World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments
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    The Selfish Gene
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    What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
    The Origin of Species
    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
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