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Does Anything Eat Wasps : And 101 Other Questions by New Scientist
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Category: Science
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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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 to Make a Tornado: The Strange and Wonderful Things That Happen When Scientists Break Free by NEW SCIENTIST
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Category: Children's Non Fiction | Series: New Scientist Ser.
This is the newest title in the brilliant and bestselling "New Scientist" series. Science tells us grand things about the universe: how fast light travels, and why stones fall to earth. But scientific endeavor goes far beyond these obvious foundations. There are some fields we don't often hear about bec ...Show more
How to be Human : New Scientist by New Scientist Staff
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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
Machines that Think: Everything you need to know about the coming age of artificial intelligence by New Scientist
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Category: Science | Series: New Scientist Instant Expert
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 by New Scientist, Stephen Hawking, Graham Lawton
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Category: Science | Series: Intro by Stephen Hawking
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
The Brain: Everything You Need to Know by New Scientist
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Category: Science
Congratulations! You're the proud owner of the most complex information processing device in the known universe. The human brain comes equipped with all sorts of useful design features, but also many bugs and weaknesses. Problem is you don't get an owner's manual. You have to just plug and play. As a r ...Show more
The Brain: Everything You Need to Know by New Scientist
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CAN YOU BOOST YOUR IQ? WHAT IF YOU COULDN'T FORGET ANYTHING? WHAT HAPPENS IN YOUR BRAIN WHEN YOU GET AN IDEA? COULD YOU BE A PSYCHOPATH? . . . NEW SCIENTIST HAS ALL THE ANSWERSFrom the strange ways to distort what we think of as 'reality' to the brain hacks that can improve memory, The Brain takes you o ...Show more
The Brain: Everything You Need to Know by New Scientist
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Category: Science
Congratulations! You're the proud owner of the most complex information processing device in the known universe. The human brain comes equipped with all sorts of useful design features, but also many bugs and weaknesses. Problem is you don't get an owner's manual. You have to just plug and play. As a r ...Show more
Where the Universe Came From - How Einstein's Relativity Unlocks the Past, Present and Future of the Cosmos by New Scientist
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Category: Science | Series: New Scientist Instant Ex Ser.
How did it all begin? Where is it all going?WHY GENERAL RELATIVITY LEAVES UNFINISHED BUSINESS WITH THE COSMOS A little over a century ago, a young Albert Einstein presented his general theory of relativity to the world and utterly transformed our understanding of the universe. He overturned centurie ...Show more
Why Don't Penguins' Feet Freeze?: And 114 Other Questions by New Scientist
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Category: Science
Why Don't Penguins' Feet Freeze? is the latest compilation of readers' answers to the questions in the 'Last Word' column of New Scientist, the world's best-selling science weekly. Following the phenomenal success of Does Anything Eat Wasps? - the Christmas 2005 surprise bestseller - this new collection ...Show more
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