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A Journey Through The Universe: A traveler's guide from the centre of the sun to the edge of the unknown by New Scientist
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There's a whole universe out there... Imagine you had a spacecraft capable of travelling through interstellar space. You climb in, blast into orbit, fly out of the solar system and keep going. Where do you end up, and what do you see along the way? The answer is: mostly nothing. Space is astonishingly, ...Show more
A Journey Through the Universe - A Traveler's Guide from the Center of the Sun to the Edge of the Unknown by New Scientist
Category: Science | Series: New Scientist Instant Expert Ser.
There's a whole universe out there ... and this book is your journey into space.Imagine you had a spacecraft capable of travelling through interstellar space. You climb in, blast into orbit, fly out of the solar system and keep going. Where do you end up, and what do you see along the way?The answer is: ...Show more
How Evolution Explains Everything About Life: From Darwin's brilliant idea to today's epic theory by New Scientist
Category: Science | Series: New Scientist Instant Expert Ser.
How did we get here? It's the journey of a lifetime. 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 no ...Show more
How Numbers Work: Discover the strange and beautiful world of mathematics by New Scientist Staff
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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 Numbers Work: Discover the strange and beautiful world of mathematics by New Scientist
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Discover the incredible connection between numbers and reality itself!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 fractio ...Show more
Human Origins by New Scientist
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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 env ...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
Machines That Think by New Scientist
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: New Scientist Instant Expert Ser.
How did artificial intelligence become the most powerful technology on the planet?Sometime in the future the intelligence of machines will exceed that of human brain power. So are we on the edge of an AI-pocalypse, with superintelligent devices superseding humanity, as predicted by Stephen Hawking? Or w ...Show more
This is Planet Earth: Your ultimate guide to the world we call home by New Scientist
Category: Science | Series: New Scientist Instant Expert Ser.
The ancient Greeks called it Gaia; the Romans Terra. We know it simply as Earth, the planet we call home. And what a planet it is. Formed around 4.6 billion years ago from the debris of the big bang and long-dead stars, at first it was nothing special, but somehow it evolved to become the most am ...Show more
This is Planet Earth: Your ultimate guide to the world we call home by New Scientist
Category: Science | Series: New Scientist Instant Expert Ser.
The Earth as you've never seen it before.The ancient Greeks called it Gaia; the Romans Terra. We know it simply as Earth, the planet we call home. And what a planet it is.Formed around 4.6 billion years ago from the debris of the big bang and long-dead stars, at first it was nothing special, but somehow ...Show more
Why the Universe Exists["How Particle Physics Unlocks the Secrets of Everything"] by New Scientist
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WHY IS THERE ALWAYS SOMETHING RATHER THAN NOTHING?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. Following the recent discovery of the ...Show more
Why the Universe Exists: How particle physics unlocks the secrets of everything by New Scientist
Category: Science | Series: New Scientist Instant Expert Ser.
Peer deep into the heart of existence and find out why particle chaos was the making of matter.WHY IS THERE ALWAYS SOMETHING RATHER THAN NOTHING? 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 ...Show more