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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: Non Fiction General | 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 Your Brain Works: Inside the Most Complicated Object in the Universe by New Scientist
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Category: Social Sciences | Series: New Scientist Instant Expert
WHAT MAKES YOU, YOU? The brain has long been a source of fascination. In 1819, the radical thinker and surgeon William Lawrence put it like this: "It is strongly suspected that a Newton or Shakespeare excels other mortals only...by having an extra inch of brain in the right place." Today, many such susp ...Show more
The End of Money: The Story of Bitcoin, Cryptocurrencies and the Blockchain Revolution by New Scientist
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Category: Popular Science | Series: New Scientist Instant Expert
The End of Money is an essential introduction to cryptocurrencies and the blockchain revolution. On this journey you'll discover how this staggering new technology has the potential to enable an ultra-libertarian society beyond government control. Murder for hire. Drug trafficking. Embezzlement. Money l ...Show more
The Quantum World: The Disturbing Theory at the Heart of Reality by New Scientist
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Category: Social Sciences | 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
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 the Universe Exists: How Particle Physics Unlocks the Secrets of Everything by New Scientist Staff
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Category: Non Fiction General | 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
Your Conscious Mind: Unravelling the Enigma of Consciousness by New Scientist
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Category: Self Help | 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
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