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Chance - The Science and Secrets of Luck, Randomness and Probability by New Scientist Magazine Staff
Category: Science
For you to be here today reading this requires a mind-boggling series of lucky breaks, starting with the Big Bang and ending in your own conception. So it's not surprising that we persist in thinking that we're in with a chance, whether we're playing the lottery or working out the likelihood of extra-te ...Show more
How Evolution Explains Everything About Life : From Darwin's Brilliant Idea to Today's Epic Theory ( New Scientist Instant Expert) by New Scientist Staff
Category: Science | Series: New Scientist Instant Expert
How did we get here? All cultures have a creation story, but a little over 150 years ago Charles Darwin introduced a revolutionary new one. We, and all living things, exist because of the action of evolution on the first simple life form and its descendants. We now know that it has taken 3.8 billions o ...Show more
How Long is Now?: Fascinating Answers to 191 Mind-Boggling Questions by New Scientist Magazine Staff; New Scientist Staff
Category: Science
A Sunday Times bestseller How long is 'now'? The short answer is 'somewhere between 2 and 3 seconds'. The long answer involves an incredible journey through neuroscience, our subconscious and the time-bending power of meditation. Living in the present may never feel the same. Ready for some more? Okay ...Show more
How Numbers Work: Discover the strange and beautiful world of mathematics by New Scientist Staff
Category: Science | Series: New Scientist Instant Expert Ser.
Think of a number between one and ten. No, hang on, let's make this interesting. Between zero and infinity. Even if you stick to the whole numbers, there are a lot to choose from - an infinite number in fact. Throw in decimal fractions and infinity suddenly gets an awful lot bigger (is that even possibl ...Show more
How to Be Human - The Ultimate Guide to Your Amazing Existence by New Scientist Staff
Category: Science
If you thought you knew who you were, THINK AGAIN. Did you know that half your DNA isn't human? That somebody, somewhere has exactly the same face? Or that most of your memories are fiction? What about the fact that you are as hairy as a chimpanzee, various parts of your body don't belong to yo ...Show more
How to be Human : New Scientist by New Scientist Staff
Category: Science
If you thought you knew who you were, THINK AGAIN. Did you know that half your DNA isn't human? That somebody, somewhere has exactly the same face? Or that most of your memories are fiction? What about the fact that you are as hairy as a chimpanzee, various parts of your body don't belong to you, or t ...Show more
Human Origins: 7 million years and counting by New Scientist Staff
Category: Science | Series: New Scientist Instant Expert Ser.
Where did we come from? Where are we going? Homo sapiens is the most successful, the most widespread and the most influential species ever to walk the Earth. In the blink of an evolutionary eye we have spread around the globe, taken control of Earth's biological and mineral resources, transformed the en ...Show more
New Scientist: The Origin of (Almost) Everything: From the Big Bang to Belly-Button Fluff (HB) by New Scientist Magazine Staff; Stephen Hawking; Jennifer Daniel (Illustrator); Graham Lawton
Category: Science
From what actually happened in the Big Bang to the accidental discovery of post-it notes, the history of science is packed with surprising discoveries. Did you know, for instance, that if you were to get too close to a black hole it would suck you up like a noodle (it's called spaghettification), why yo ...Show more
New Scientist: The Origin of (almost) Everything by New Scientist Magazine Staff; Graham Lawton; Jennifer Daniel (Illustrator); Stephen Hawking
Category: Science
Introduction by Professor Stephen Hawking. When Edwin Hubble looked into his telescope in the 1920s, he was shocked to find that nearly all of the galaxies he could see through it were flying away from one another. If these galaxies had always been travelling, he reasoned, then they must, at some point ...Show more
Why the Universe Exists: How Particle Physics Unlocks the Secrets of Everything by New Scientist Staff
Category: Science | Series: New Scientist Instant Expert
As you read this, billions of neutrinos from the sun are passing through your body, antimatter is sprouting from your dinner and the core of your being is a chaotic mess of particles known only as quarks and gluons. If the recent discovery of the Higgs Boson piqued your interest, then Why The Universe ...Show more
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