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  • The Disappearing Spoon Audiobook By Sam Kean cover art

    • The Disappearing Spoon

    • And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements
    • By: Sam Kean
    • Narrated by: Sean Runnette
    • Length: 12 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 08-18-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6,104 ratings
    • Science Magazine reporter Sam Kean reveals the periodic table as it’s never been seen before....

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  • Einstein Audiobook By Walter Isaacson cover art

    • Einstein

    • His Life and Universe
    • By: Walter Isaacson
    • Narrated by: Edward Herrmann
    • Length: 21 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 03-28-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15,452 ratings
    • Based on the newly released personal letters of Albert Einstein, Walter Isaacson explores how an imaginative, impertinent patent clerk became the mind reader of the creator of the cosmos....

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  • The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Audiobook By Rebecca Skloot cover art

    • The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

    • By: Rebecca Skloot
    • Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell, Bahni Turpin
    • Length: 12 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 02-02-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16,743 ratings

    • Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells - taken without her knowledge - became one of the most important tools in medicine....

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  • The Making of the Atomic Bomb Audiobook By Richard Rhodes cover art

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  • Ten Drugs Audiobook By Thomas Hager cover art

    • Ten Drugs

    • How Plants, Powders, and Pills Have Shaped the History of Medicine
    • By: Thomas Hager
    • Narrated by: Angelo Di Loreto
    • Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 03-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4,908 ratings

    • Beginning with opium, the “joy plant,” which has been used for 10,000 years, Thomas Hager tells a captivating story of medicine. His subjects include the largely forgotten female pioneer who introduced smallpox inoculation to Britain, the infamous knockout drops, and much more....

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  • Stiff Audiobook By Mary Roach cover art

    • Stiff

    • The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
    • By: Mary Roach
    • Narrated by: Shelly Frasier
    • Length: 8 hrs
    • Release date: 02-26-04
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8,358 ratings
    • An oddly compelling, often hilarious exploration of the strange lives of our bodies postmortem....

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  • The Icepick Surgeon Audiobook By Sam Kean cover art

    • The Icepick Surgeon

    • Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science
    • By: Sam Kean
    • Narrated by: Ben Sullivan
    • Length: 11 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 07-13-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,118 ratings

    • Science is a force for good in the world—at least usually. But sometimes, when obsession gets the better of scientists, they twist a noble pursuit into something sinister. Under this spell, knowledge isn’t everything, it’s the only thing—no matter the cost....

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  • A Brief History of Earth Audiobook By Andrew H. Knoll cover art

    • A Brief History of Earth

    • Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters
    • By: Andrew H. Knoll
    • Narrated by: Tom Parks
    • Length: 4 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 04-27-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 257 ratings

    • Drawing on his decades of field research and up-to-the-minute understanding of the latest science, renowned geologist Andrew H. Knoll delivers a rigorous yet accessible biography of Earth, charting our home planet's epic 4.6 billion-year story....

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  • The Matter of Everything Audiobook By Suzie Sheehy cover art

    • The Matter of Everything

    • How Curiosity, Physics, and Improbable Experiments Changed the World
    • By: Suzie Sheehy
    • Narrated by: Suzie Sheehy
    • Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 01-10-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 29 ratings

    • A physicist’s surprising, fascinating journey through the experimentsthat unlocked the nature of matter and gave riseto the technology that ushered us into the modern world....

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  • Longitude Audiobook By Dava Sobel cover art

    • Longitude

    • The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
    • By: Dava Sobel
    • Narrated by: Kate Reading, Neil Armstrong
    • Length: 4 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 03-30-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,270 ratings
    • An exciting scientific adventure from the days of wooden ships and iron men, Longitude is full of heroism and chicanery, brilliance and the absurd....

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  • The Pleasure of Finding Things Out Audiobook By Richard P. Feynman cover art

    • The Pleasure of Finding Things Out

    • The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman
    • By: Richard P. Feynman
    • Narrated by: Sean Runnette
    • Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 04-15-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,824 ratings
    • The Pleasure of Finding Things Out is a magnificent treasury of the best short works of Richard P. Feynman....

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  • The Structure of Scientific Revolutions Audiobook By Thomas S. Kuhn cover art

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  • Atomic Accidents Audiobook By James Mahaffey cover art

    • Atomic Accidents

    • A History of Nuclear Meltdowns and Disasters; From the Ozark Mountains to Fukushima
    • By: James Mahaffey
    • Narrated by: Tom Weiner
    • Length: 15 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 02-15-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,096 ratings
    • Nuclear science has had a rich history of innovative scientific exploration and discovery, coupled with mistakes, accidents, and downright disasters....

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  • Patient Zero Audiobook By Lydia Kang MD, Nate Pedersen cover art

    • Patient Zero

    • A Curious History of the World's Worst Diseases
    • By: Lydia Kang MD, Nate Pedersen
    • Narrated by: Hillary Huber
    • Length: 14 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 07-15-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 104 ratings

    • From the masters of storytelling-meets-science, Patient Zero tells the long and fascinating history of disease outbreaks—how they start, how they spread, the science that lets us understand them, and how we race to destroy them before they destroy us....

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  • The Invisible Rainbow Audiobook By Arthur Firstenberg cover art

    • The Invisible Rainbow

    • A History of Electricity and Life
    • By: Arthur Firstenberg
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 12 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 08-13-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 257 ratings

    • Over the last 220 years, society has evolved a universal belief that electricity is "safe" for humanity and the planet. Scientist and journalist Arthur Firstenberg disrupts this conviction by telling the story of electricity in a way it has never been told before....

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  • The Devil's Element Audiobook By Dan Egan cover art

    • The Devil's Element

    • Phosphorus and a World Out of Balance
    • By: Dan Egan
    • Narrated by: Jason Culp
    • Length: 6 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 03-07-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 42 ratings

    • Phosphorus has played a critical role in some of the most lethal substances on earth: firebombs, rat poison, nerve gas. But it’s also the key component of one of the most vital: fertilizer, which has sustained life for billions of people....

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  • Liftoff Audiobook By Eric Berger cover art

    • Liftoff

    • Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days that Launched SpaceX
    • By: Eric Berger
    • Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
    • Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 03-02-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2,290 ratings

    • The dramatic inside story of the first four historic flights that launched SpaceX - and Elon Musk - from a shaky startup into the world's leading-edge rocket company....

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  • Humankind Audiobook By Rutger Bregman, Erica Moore, Elizabeth Manton cover art

    • Humankind

    • A Hopeful History
    • By: Rutger Bregman, Erica Moore, Elizabeth Manton
    • Narrated by: Rutger Bregman, Thomas Judd
    • Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 06-02-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,085 ratings

    • If there is one belief that has united the left and the right, psychologists and philosophers, ancient thinkers and modern ones, it is the tacit assumption that humans are bad. It's a notion that drives newspaper headlines and guides the laws that shape our lives....

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  • The Great Influenza Audiobook By John M. Barry cover art

    • The Great Influenza

    • The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History
    • By: John M. Barry
    • Narrated by: Scott Brick
    • Length: 19 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 01-01-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6,858 ratings

    • In the winter of 1918, at the height of World War I, history's most lethal influenza virus erupted in an army camp in Kansas, moved east with American troops, then exploded, killing as many as 100 million people worldwide....

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  • Relativity Audiobook By Albert Einstein cover art

    • Relativity

    • The Special and the General Theory
    • By: Albert Einstein
    • Narrated by: Julian Lopez-Morillas
    • Length: 2 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 11-14-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 190 ratings
    • Albert Einstein described Relativity as a "popular explosion" of his famous theory....

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