Popular science books

A succinct, startling and lavishly illustrated guide to discoveries that are altering our understanding and threatening...  Read More >>

Was there a beginning of time? Could time run backwards? Is the universe infinite or does it have boundaries? This...  Read More >>

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All of the candidates were among the nation's elite pilots involved in testing new supersonic aircraft capabilities....  Read More >>

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Presents many years of research by hundreds of scientists that reveals how wild animals, as well as pets, have inner,...  Read More >>

Three distinguished men have written breathtaking, firsthand accounts about extraordinary incidents involving UFOs....  Read More >>

The scientific consensus is that our ability to understand human speech has evolved over hundreds of thousands of...  Read More >>

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Presenting an array of historical anecdotes, strange superstitions and weird wives' tales, Rik Smits takes the reader...  Read More >>

Quantum physics presents an unanswerable challenge to our common sense understanding of the universe, and the final...  Read More >>

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What came before the Big Bang? How did the universe begin and must it inevitably end? This book illuminates some...  Read More >>

From modern pandemics such as HIV, swine flu and SARS, to stories of vaccination and antiviral drugs, this Very...  Read More >>

This book charts the social and cultural history of the scientific technique known as 'tissue culture'. It shows...  Read More >>

The fascinating tales in The Disappearing Spoon follow carbon, neon, silicon, gold and every single element on the...  Read More >>

The enormous recent progress in fighting cancer, and the science behind it, is revealed fully for the first time...  Read More >>

"From the whizzes at ""Popular Science"" magazine, this quirky title is full of wild, weird queries and their unexpected...  Read More >>

From Heidi Cullen, one of America's foremost experts on weather and climate change and a senior research scientist...  Read More >>

We evolved, like every other species, in a wilderness of parasites, mutualists and pathogens. But we no longer see...  Read More >>

In a number of highly-charged child abuse cases, teachers and parents have been wrongfully arrested because of claims...  Read More >>

Peppered with memorable anecdotes about spectral curiosities, ""The Sun's Heartbeat"" is a robust narrative that...  Read More >>