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The Quantum World: The Disturbing Theory at the Heart of Reality by New Scientist
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Category: Popular Science | Series: New Scientist Instant Expert
THE MIND-BENDING WORLD OF QUANTUM THEORY Quantum theory is our very best description of the microscopic world of atoms and their constituents. It has given us lasers, computers and nuclear reactors, and even tells us how the sun shines and why the ground beneath our feet is solid. Yet the quantum world ...Show more
The Quantum World - The Disturbing Theory at the Heart of Reality by New Scientist
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Just how real is reality, anyway?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 behavior according to whether ...Show more
This is Planet Earth: Your ultimate guide to the world we call home by New Scientist
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Category: Science & Nature | Series: New Scientist Instant Expert Ser.
The ancient Greeks called it Gaia; the Romans Terra. We know it simply as Earth, the planet we call home. And what a planet it is. Formed around 4.6 billion years ago from the debris of the big bang and long-dead stars, at first it was nothing special, but somehow it evolved to become the most am ...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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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
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: Popular Science | Series: New Scientist Instant Expert
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 centuries of thinking about gravity by revealing how it ...Show more
Why are Orangutans Orange? : Science Puzzles in Pictures - with Fascinating Answers by New Scientist
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Category: Popular Science
Illustrated for the first time, with eighty full-colour photographs showing the beauty, complexity and mystery of the world around us, here is the next eagerly awaited volume of science questions and answers from "New Scientist" magazine. From ripples in glass to 'holograms' in ice, the natural world's ...Show more
Why the Universe Exists: How Particle Physics Unlocks the Secrets of Everything by New Scientist Staff
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Category: Science & Nature | Series: New Scientist Instant Expert
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 ...Show more
Will We Ever Speak Dolphin? And 110 other science questions answered by New Scientist
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Category: Popular Science
The latest title in the bestselling "Last Word" series. Why do birds sing at dawn? What's the slowest a plane can fly without stalling and falling out of the sky? And how long can you keep a tiger cub as a pet? Will We Ever Speak Dolphin? The eagerly-awaited new "Last Word" collection, has the answers t ...Show more
Your Conscious Mind: Unravelling the Enigma of Consciousness by New Scientist
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Category: Science & Nature | Series: New Scientist Instant Expert
What is this strange mental world that seems so essential to being human? The conscious mind brings together sensations, perceptions, thoughts and memories to generate the seamless movie of a person's life. It makes us aware of the world around us and our own self. How all this emerges from a kilogram o ...Show more