Science

Not only can we not currently explain the origin of the universe, it is questionable we will ever be able to explain it. The notion that there are universes within particles, or that particles are conscious, is ascientific, as is the hypothesis that our universe is a computer simulation....

Exploring more than 80 of the world's most scientific theories and big ideas across the fields of physics, chemistry, biology, astronomy, geology, and math, this audiobook offers a fascinating look at the history of science....

This paradigm-shifting audiobook shows how almost everything we think we know about aging is wrong, offers a front-row seat to the amazing global effort to slow, stop, and reverse aging, and calls listeners to consider a future where aging can be treated....

John Green, the #1 bestselling author of The Anthropocene Reviewed and a passionate advocate for global healthcare reform, tells a deeply human story illuminating the fight against the world’s deadliest infectious disease.

Wouldn’t you like to live longer? And better? In this operating manual for longevity, Dr. Peter Attia draws on the latest science to deliver innovative nutritional interventions, techniques for optimizing exercise and sleep, and tools for addressing emotional and mental health....

“A lively history of biology, mechanics, and culture that stretches back 60 million years” (Nature) The Age of Wood reinterprets human history and shows how our ability to exploit wood’s unique properties has profoundly shaped our bodies and minds....

A thrilling nonfiction tour of the cosmos that brings the universe down to Earth, from one of the all-time masters of science fiction....

As a botanist and professor of plant ecology, Robin Wall Kimmerer has spent a career learning how to ask questions of nature using the tools of science....

The New York Times best-selling, "meticulously researched and absorbingly written" (The Washington Post) story of the trailblazers and the ordinary Americans on the front lines of the epic Apollo 11 moon mission....

In 1637, one Dutchman paid as much for a single tulip bulb as the going price of a town house in Amsterdam. Three and a half centuries later, Amsterdam is once again the mecca for people who care passionately about one particular plant....

This book is about pleasure. It’s also about pain. Most important, it’s about how to find the delicate balance between the two, and why now more than ever finding balance is essential....

The Good Virus unveils the hidden rulers of the microbial world and celebrates the surprising power of viruses to heal, not harm....

There is nothing more essential to our health and well-being than breathing: Take air in, let it out, repeat 25,000 times a day. Yet, as a species, humans have lost the ability to breathe correctly. Journalist James Nestor travels the world to figure out what went wrong and how to fix it....

Daughter. Duhitár-. Dustr. Dukte. Listen to these English, Sanskrit, Armenian and Lithuanian words, all meaning the same thing, and you hear echoes of one of history’s most unlikely journeys.

An urgent wake-up call about the future of emerging viruses and a gripping account of the doctors and scientists fighting to protect us, told through the story of the deadly 2013-2014 Ebola epidemic....

Professor Matthew Walker reveals his groundbreaking exploration of sleep, explaining how we can harness its transformative power to change our lives for the better....

Bill Bryson has been an enormously popular author both for his travel books and for his books on the English language. Now, this beloved comic genius turns his attention to science...

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Guns, Germs and Steel examines the rise of civilization and the issues its development has raised throughout history....

Super Agers is a detailed guide to a revolution transforming human longevity. This is a breakthrough moment in the history of human health care. The person making that bold claim is one of the most respected medical researchers in the world, Eric Topol.

A distinguished psychiatrist and avid gardener presents “a truly uplifting book on the power of gardening - and how it can change people’s lives” (Stylist, UK)....

In Air-Borne, award-winning New York Times columnist and author Carl Zimmer leads us on an odyssey through the living atmosphere and through the history of its discovery.

In his second New York Times best seller, Daniel J. Levitin's genius for combining science and art reveals how music shaped humanity across cultures and throughout history....

The answers to these questions are right behind our eyes. The greatest technology we have ever discovered on our planet is the three-pound organ carried in the vault of the skull....

The Real Anthony Fauci details how Fauci, Gates, and their cohorts use their control of media outlets, scientific journals, key government agencies, global intelligence agencies, and influential scientists and physicians to flood the public with fearful propaganda about COVID-19....

How can we make intelligent decisions about our increasingly technology-driven lives if we don’t understand the difference between the myths of pseudoscience and the testable hypotheses of science? Find out....

It was Richard Feynman's outrageous and scintillating method of teaching that earned him legendary status among students and professors of physics. From 1961 to 1963, Feynman delivered a series of lectures at the California Institute of Technology that revolutionized the teaching of physics around the world. Six Easy Pieces, taken from these famous Lectures on Physics, represent the most accessible material from the series

During the 1920s, dozens of expeditions scoured the Chinese and Tibetan wilderness in search of the panda bear, a beast that many believed did not exist. When the two eldest sons of President Theodore Roosevelt sought the bear in 1928, they had little hope of success. Together with a team of scientists and naturalists, they accomplished what a decade of explorers could not, ultimately introducing the panda to the West. In the process, they documented a vanishing world and set off a new era of conservation biology.

Are we living in a simulation? MIT computer scientist Rizwan Virk draws from research and concepts from computer science, artificial intelligence, video games, quantum physics, and ancient mystics to explain why we may be living inside a simulated reality like the Matrix. The Simulation Hypothesis is the definitive book on simulation theory and is now completely updated to reflect the latest developments in artificial intelligence and virtual reality.

The fascinating and remarkable true story of the world’s first forensic ornithologist— Roxie Laybourne, who broke down barriers for women, solved murders, and investigated deadly airplane crashes with nothing more than a microscope and a few fragments of feathers.

From blinding migraines to severe headache disorders known as “clusters,” chronic head pain affects 40% of the population, many of them suffering in silence. Finally, The Headache reveals the science behind a group of disorders that is as much a curse as a cultural punchline, and leads to key insights into the nature of pain itself.

Michael Grunwald, bestselling author of The Swamp and The New New Deal, builds his narrative around a brilliant, relentless, unforgettable food and land expert named Tim Searchinger. He chronicles Searchinger’s uphill battles against bad science and bad politics, both driven by the overwhelming influence of agricultural interests. And he illuminates a path that could save our planetary home for ourselves and future generations—through better policy, technology, and behavior, as well as a new land ethic recognizing that every acre matters.

To his admirers, Luis W. Alvarez was the most accomplished, inventive, and versatile experimental physicist of his generation.

The transition from childhood to adulthood is a natural, evolution-honed cycle that now faces radical change and challenge. The adolescent brain, sculpted for this transition over eons of evolution, confronts a modern world that creates so much social pressure as to regularly exceed the capacities of the evolving mind. The problem comes as a bombardment of screen-based information pelts the brain just as adolescence is undergoing a second key change: puberty is hitting earlier.

A seminal work of scientific and philosophical exploration. Ever since the Greeks coined the language we commonly use for scientific description, mythology and science have developed separately. But what if we could prove that all myths have one common origin in a celestial cosmology? What if the gods, the places they lived, and what they did are but ciphers for celestial activity, a language for the perpetuation of complex astronomical data?

On a 90-degree day in Los Angeles, bus riders across the city line up behind the shadows cast by street signs and telephone poles, looking for a little relief from the sun’s glaring heat. Every summer such scenes play out in cities across the United States, and as Sam Bloch argues, we ignore the benefits of shade at our own peril. Heatwaves are now the country’s deadliest natural disasters with victims concentrated in poorer, less shady areas. Public health, mental health, and crime statistics are worse in neighborhoods without it. For some, finding shade is a matter of life and death.

Capstick will stun you with these true accounts of the most notorious and often unexpected maneaters from around the world. After listening to them, you'll think again about that docile elephant in the zoo, or about deadly piranha escaping into Florida's waterways. Your nightmares will be complete when you read about the greatest maneater of all the cannibal including such civilized legends as Jeremiah Johnson!

What if life didn't begin on Earth, but came from the stars themselves? In this groundbreaking exploration, we journey from ancient myths to cutting-edge science to examine one of the most revolutionary ideas in modern biology: that life travels between worlds, seeding the universe with the building blocks of existence. The panspermia hypothesis suggests we are not alone—not because aliens visit us, but because we ARE the aliens, descendants of cosmic wanderers who arrived on meteorites billions of years ago.

Today it's routine to take photos from an airplane window, use a camera underwater, watch a movie, or view an X-ray. But the photographic innovations more than a century ago that made such things possible were experimental, revelatory, and sometimes dangerous—and many of the innovators, entrepreneurs, and inventors behind them were memorable eccentrics. In Flashes of Brilliance, writer and photo editor Anika Burgess engagingly blends art, science, and social history to reveal the most dramatic developments in photography from its birth in the 1830s to the early twentieth century.

Ready to grow your own slice of perpetual summer, no matter the weather outside? Dreaming of fresh herbs in February while the world’s still scraping ice off windshields… but unsure where to start? If so, this book’s for you, greenhouse dreamer. And it’s time to make those dreams come true. Whether you’ve dabbled in gardening or your biggest green achievement is fridge mold, Greenhouse Gardening for the Absolute Beginner is your no-fuss, step-by-step roadmap to a thriving year-round garden.

This book explains the new world view that’s rapidly being accepted by individuals on the cutting edge due to assimilation of the results of quantum physics experiments and consciousness research that’s been going on since the 1960s at the University of Virginia School of Medicine. One implication of this research is that we humans are eternal, nonphysical beings having temporary physical experiences. This begs the question, what if death isn't the disaster most people generally think it is? What if—after we’ve lived 70 years or so and done what we came here to do—death can be ...

Discover the fascinating science behind unpredictability, complexity, and the hidden order within chaos. Understanding Chaos Theory is the definitive beginner’s guide to one of the most mind-bending concepts in modern science. From weather systems and traffic patterns to heart rhythms and financial markets, chaos theory reveals how small changes can produce massive effects—and why true predictability is often an illusion. Written in clear, accessible language, this book walks you through the origins, principles, and real-world applications of chaos theory without requiring a background ...

Understanding Stephen Hawking: A Beginner’s Guide to His Greatest Scientific Ideas and Theories is a clear, engaging, and accessible introduction to the groundbreaking work of one of the most brilliant minds in modern science. From black holes and Hawking radiation to the Big Bang, time, and the search for a Theory of Everything, this comprehensive guide explores Stephen Hawking’s most influential theories and how they transformed our understanding of the universe. Perfect for curious readers, science enthusiasts, and beginners alike, this book breaks down Hawking’s complex ideas in ...

It begins on a perfect summer day. A family trip to a warm, freshwater lake ends in an unthinkable tragedy. Days later, a child complains of a headache, and within a week, the unthinkable happens. This is the terrifying reality of Naegleria fowleri, a microscopic predator that triggers a rare but devastating brain infection: primary amebic meningoencephalitis (PAM). MEDICAL MYSTERIES: Brain-Eating Amoeba takes you beyond the sensationalist headlines and deep into one of medicine’s most harrowing challenges. This exhaustively researched narrative combines gripping true stories, cutting-...

What if the universe had a blueprint? What if all of existence, from particles to consciousness, was patterned on a single, elegant symmetry? In The E8 Enigma, bestselling author and visionary thinker A. M. DaVinci takes readers on a thrilling journey into one of the most profound ideas in modern theoretical physics, one that may very well be the key to unifying everything. At the heart of this groundbreaking book is E8, an intricate, eight-dimensional mathematical structure with 248 points of perfect symmetry. Once considered a curiosity, E8 is now captivating the imaginations of ...

Threads and Luxidoni Light Theory: Filotenzi — The Quantum Guiding Force Behind Light & Matter A New Physics of Force, Energy, Structure, and Cosmic Growth By Samir Hanna Safar Break away from outdated physics. Discover a bold new model of the universe—built from threads, light discs, and the invisible force that guides them all: Filotenzi. In this groundbreaking work, inventor and theorist Samir Hanna Safar introduces a revolutionary physics theory that challenges over 100 years of conventional science. Threads and Luxidoni Light Theory replaces particles, waves, and spacetime ...

Discover the Ancient Secrets of Natural Healing—Rooted in Tradition, Proven by Time Are you tired of synthetic pills and short-term fixes? Reconnect with nature and unlock the power of herbal healing with Ancient Herbal Remedies: Healing Secrets from the Earth. This beautifully written guide takes you on a journey through the world’s oldest healing systems—from Ayurveda and Traditional Chinese Medicine to Native American and African herbal traditions. Inside, you'll explore: The origins of herbal medicine and how ancient cultures used plants to heal the body, calm the mind, and ...

In a world dominated by screens and endless scrolling, a quiet revolution is taking root. "Offline Nation" by A. J. Vale pulls back the curtain on a groundbreaking cultural shift, where the digital natives are leading a charge back to the tangible world. This isn't your grandparents' nostalgia trip—it's a vital exploration of how stepping away from our devices is rewiring our brains, rebuilding our communities, and restoring our humanity. Vale's globe-spanning journey takes us over the beating movement that's as diverse as it is powerful. From all-night zine parties in Portland to phone-...

A shelter cat teaches us that our damaged parts, too, are worthy of love... a captive orca shows us that inconvenience and difficulties are the blessing of a full life... a gorilla teaches the universal language of grief... a group of oysters who prove that magic and science can and do coexist…

In “The Molecular Polypharmacology of Essential Oils: Targets, Pathways, and Mechanisms,” renowned natural medicine expert Dr. Scott A. Johnson takes you on a revolutionary journey into the molecular science behind essential oils. With decades of research distilled into this comprehensive guide, you'll gain an unprecedented look at how essential oils work—not just anecdotally, but at the cellular and molecular levels. This powerful book explores the inherent polypharmacology of essential oils—their natural ability to influence multiple targets and mechanisms simultaneously—due to ...

This novel is about aliens who are found to be inhabiting Area 51.