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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Infinite Cosmos: Visions From the James Webb Space Telescope
Playing Possum: How Animals Understand Death
The Universe in Verse: 15 Portals to Wonder through Science & Poetry
A Deathly Compendium of Poisonous Plants: Wicked Weeds and Sinister Seeds
Pillars of Creation: How the James Webb Telescope Unlocked the Secrets of the Cosmos
Into the Great Wide Ocean: Life in the Least Known Habitat on Earth
Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
What If We Get It Right?: Visions of Climate Futures
Something in the Woods Loves You
Blind Spots: When Medicine Gets It Wrong, and What It Means for Our Health
The Story of a Heart: Two Families, One Heart, and the Medical Miracle That Saved a Child’s Life
Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT, and the Race that Will Change the World
The Extinction of Experience: Being Human in a Disembodied World
Reentry: SpaceX, Elon Musk, and the Reusable Rockets that Launched a Second Space Age
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