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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
Does Anything Eat Wasps : And 101 Other Questions by New Scientist
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Every year, readers send in thousands of questions to New Scientist, the world's best-selling science weekly, in the hope that the answers to them will be given in the 'Last Word' column - regularly voted the most popular section of the magazine.Does Anything Eat Wasps? is a collection of the best that ...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
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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
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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
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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 Your Brain Works: Inside the Most Complicated Object in the Universe by New Scientist
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WHAT MAKES YOU, YOU? The brain has long been a source of fascination. In 1819, the radical thinker and surgeon William Lawrence put it like this: "It is strongly suspected that a Newton or Shakespeare excels other mortals only...by having an extra inch of brain in the right place." Today, many such susp ...Show more
How to be Human : New Scientist by New Scientist Staff
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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
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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 en ...Show more
Machines that Think: Everything you need to know about the coming age of artificial intelligence by New Scientist
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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 will this herald a kind of Utopia, with machines doing a far better job at complex ...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
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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
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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
New Scientist: The Origin of (almost) Everything by New Scientist, Stephen Hawking, Graham Lawton
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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