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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Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment
Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
The Menopause Manifesto: Own Your Health with Facts and Feminism
The Secret World of Weather
Into the Deep: An Explorer's Life
Ravenous: Otto Warburg, the Nazis, and the Search for the Cancer-Diet Connection
Test Gods: Virgin Galactic and the Making of a Modern Astronaut
The Tyranny of Big Tech
My Remarkable Journey: A Memoir
Nerdycorn
Mom Genes: Inside the New Science of Our Ancient Maternal Instinct
Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn’t, and Why It Matters
Imagine It!: A Handbook for a Happier Planet
The Sleeping Beauties
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    The Overstory
    Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
    Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow
    Press Reset: Ruin and Recovery in the Video Game Industry
    Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
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    The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
    The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
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