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  • How Numbers Work

    Discover the strange and beautiful world of mathematics

    by New Scientist ...
    Series series New Scientist Instant Expert
    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 possible?) And then there are the negative numbers, the imaginary numbers, the irrational numbers like ... Read more

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  • Human Origins

    7 million years and counting

    by New Scientist ...
    Series series New Scientist Instant Expert
    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 environment, discovered the secrets of the universe and travelled into space.Yet just 7 million ... Read more

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  • Know It All

    132 Head-Scratching Questions About the Science All Around Us

    by NewScientist ...
    Some of the craziest questions & answers from the magazine's "Last Word" column, on subjects like Earth, space, meteorology, evolution, health, and more.New Scientist magazine's beloved "Last Word" column is a rare forum for "un-Google-able" queries: Readers write in, and readers respond! Know It All collects 132 of the column's very best Q&As. The often-wacky questions cover physics, chemistry, ... Read more

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  • Does Anything Eat Wasps

    And 101 Other Questions

    by New Scientist ...
    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 have appeared, including: Why can't we eat green potatoes? Why do airliners suddenly plummet? ... Read more

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  • Eureka!

    Mindblowing Science Every Day of the Year

    by New Scientist ...
    Introduced by Jim Al-Khalili*Could you surf down an erupting volcano?Why do zebras have stripes?Are you breathing the same air as Leonardo da Vinci?Are there any green mammals?Why do pineapples have spikes?Why do songs get stuck in your head?What happens when black holes collide?Can you extract your DNA?*New Scientist has been a treasure trove of fascinating and surprising questions and answer... ... Read more

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  • Why the Universe Exists

    How particle physics unlocks the secrets of everything

    by New Scientist ...
    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 Exists will take you deeper into the world of particle physics, with leading physicists and New ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

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  • Do Polar Bears Get Lonely?

    And 101 Other Intriguing Science Questions

    by New Scientist ...
    Do Polar Bears Get Lonely? is the third 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? (2005) and the even more spectacularly successful Why Don't Penguins' Feet Freeze? (2006), this latest collection includes a bumper crop of wise and wonderful ... Read more

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    How to Be Human

    The Ultimate Guide to Your Amazing Existence

    by New Scientist ...
    Narrated by David Thorpe ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 2 min

    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 that you can read other people's minds? Do you really know why you blush, yawn and cry? Why 90 per ... Read more

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  • The Quantum World

    The disturbing theory at the heart of reality

    by New Scientist ...
    Series series New Scientist Instant Expert
    Forget everything you thought you knew about reality.The world is a seriously bizarre place. Things can exist in two places at once and travel backwards and forwards in time. Waves and particles are one and the same, and objects change their behaviour according to whether they are being watched. This is not some alternative universe but the realm of the very small, where quantum mechanics rules. ... Read more

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  • Why Don't Penguins' Feet Freeze?

    And 114 Other Questions

    by New Scientist ...
    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 includes recent answers never before published in book form, and also old favourites from the ... Read more

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  • The End of Money

    The story of bitcoin, cryptocurrencies and the blockchain revolution

    by New Scientist ...
    Murder for hire. Drug trafficking. Embezzlement. Money laundering... These might sound like plot lines of a thriller, but they are true stories from the short history of cryptocurrencies - digital currencies conceived by computer hackers and cryptographers that represent a completely new sort of financial transaction that could soon become mainstream.The most famous - or infamous - cryptocurrency ... Read more

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  • Machines that Think

    Everything you need to know about the coming age of artificial intelligence

    by New Scientist ...
    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 tasks than us?You might not realise it, but you interact with AIs every day. They route your ... Read more

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