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Using items in the NASA archive together with expert narrative guidance, this history of how Americans got to space...  Read More >>

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From Tyrannosaurus rex to Heteropoda davidbowie: scientific naming as a joyful and creative act.  Read More >>

How scientific reasoning explains our most common daily fears—from germs to natural disasters and everything in...  Read More >>

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Huge advances in our ability to sequence ancient DNA have revolutionised what we know about the earliest human populations....  Read More >>

From international bestselling author Amy Chua, a bracing and original look at the tension between our tribal instincts...  Read More >>

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This book is about the American moon-landings – and about the doubts expressed ever since concerning the reality...  Read More >>

A fun, non-technical and wonderfully engaging guide to that most powerful and mysterious of mathematical concepts:...  Read More >>

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The structures around us are born from breathtaking human ingenuity. Once you discover their secret stories, you'll...  Read More >>

This engaging book places Leonardo da Vinci’s scientific achievements within the wider context of the rapid development...  Read More >>

The interest earned on a bank account, the arrangement of seeds in a sun flower, and the shape of the Gateway Arch...  Read More >>

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Carolyn’s parents did not, after all, make genomics history by synthesizing her genome in a lab.  Read More >>

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The world is running out of water. Fred Pearce, environmental consultant to the New Scientist, explains why, and...  Read More >>

Edited and introduced by Bill Bryson, with contributions from Richard Dawkins, Margaret Atwood, Richard Holmes,...  Read More >>

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Learn how science relates to the world in this new addition to the award-winning series Excite young minds with...  Read More >>