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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Nothing but Trouble
Beyond Earth: Our Path to a New Home in the Planets
Wonder Women: 25 Innovators, Inventors, and Trailblazers Who Changed History
The Lion in the Living Room: How House Cats Tamed Us and Took Over the World
Blood, Bullets, and Bones: The Story of Forensic Science from Sherlock Holmes to DNA
Spaceman: An Astronaut's Unlikely Journey to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe
The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads
Science and the City: The Mechanics Behind the Metropolis
Baby Loves Quarks!
Mars: Our Future on the Red Planet
The Way Things Work Now
The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2016
Stalin and the Scientists: A History of Triumph and Tragedy, 1905-1953
I Am Josephine: (And I Am a Living Thing)

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    We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
    The Last Days of Night
    Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War
    Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
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    What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
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    The Grand Design
    The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality
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    The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
    Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex

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