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Astrophysicist Lucie Green takes us on a brilliant tour of the most important cosmic maps in human history—visualizations of the cosmos that show us what we’ve discovered, and what we could know, about the universe and its invisible wonders. We think of space as merely the empty distance...

At some point early in life it hits us all: the adults around us, who we assumed knew what they were doing, have no more idea than we do. Most of the time we are all making it up as we go. Even in science there are few absolute truths. And yet uncertainty makes us deeply uncomfortable. Our...

A provocative, groundbreaking exploration of humanity's deepest question: what happens after we die? If you've ever stood beside someone who just died—a parent, a friend, a pet—you know: that being isn't there anymore. The body becomes an abandoned shell, there in form yet hollow of what...

Everything you didn’t realize you needed to know about lasers, the incredible technology that makes the modern world possible Lasers are the quintessential technology of our wildest science-fictional dreams. In our collective imagination, they have waged battles in space, transported cows in...

You are made of more atoms than there are stars in the universe. In Atomic Universe, we follow just one of those atoms on an astonishing journey backwards through time - all the way to the Big Bang. Moving in reverse through the history of everything, you'll witness the birth of stars, feel the...

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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Astrophysics for People in a Hurry comes a look at foundational concepts of science and astronomy through a vivid lens of familiar objects and situations. Your personal astrophysicist, Neil deGrasse Tyson, transforms everyday experiences into...

A leading theoretical physicist takes us on a lively tour of quantum field theory, the most fundamental description we have for what makes up the universe. In Everything Is Fields, the leading theoretical physicist and Cambridge professor David Tong reveals a startling truth: that, at the most...

'In this brilliant book, Mack makes learning feel thrilling, and along the way helps us to understand what science actually does' John Green From one of the most exciting voices in science, a fascinating behind-the-scenes tour of modern physics What is the universe made of, and how do we know?...

From one of the most exciting and accessible voices in physics, an eye-opening look into the strange and wonderful world of quantum physics and how it is revolutionizing our understanding of the universe. What is the universe made of, and how do we know? For decades, physicists have studied this...

Cosmology was once a field of bold speculation and baffling unknowns, but new instrumentation and insights are turning it into a precision science. Where does our knowledge end and uncertainty stretch away? Martin Rees has spent more than sixty years at the centre of this transformation, as a...

On February 4, 1974, members of the Symbionese Liberation Army kidnapped nineteen-year-old newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst from her Berkeley, California, apartment. Desperate to find her, the police called physicist Russell Targ and Pat Price, a psychic retired police commissioner. As Price...

Demise is inevitable. Cells commit suicide. Bodies decompose after death. Stars exhaust their fuel and swell into spectacular blazes, taking entire planets with them. From the microscopic to the cosmic, everything falls apart according to the inexorable rules of time and entropy—and maybe...

Nuclear physics began long before the identification of fundamental particles, with J. J. Thomson's discovery of the electron at the end of the nineteenth century, which implied the existence of a positive charge in the atom to make it neutral. In this Very Short Introduction, Frank Close gives...

世界は「場」でできている！ 電磁場から量子場へ――マックスウェルの歯車模型という「電磁場」の姿。 量子の不思議な振る舞い＜生成と消滅＞を描く「ファインマン図」を手掛かりに見とおす「量子場」への発展。 そして、現代物理学の難題「重力場」について、アインシュタインの重力からその最新研究まで紹介します。

A trustworthy guide on the science of life beyond Earth Is there life beyond our planet? It's one of the biggest questions humans have ever asked, and scientists are getting closer to answers every day. Astrobiology For Dummies is your easy-to-understand guide to this rapidly growing field...

Dawn of the Stars offers a unique approach to learning astrophysics by combining rigorous scientific content with an engaging narrative. It introduces listeners to the fundamental principles of stellar evolution, star formation, binary interactions, and gravitational astrophysics through the...

Alles über das All – wissenschaftlich fundiert und allgemein verständlich. Wie warm ist es im Weltraum? Sind Schwarze Löcher wirklich schwarz? Und warum altern Raumfahrer langsamer? Ulrich Walter ist einer von elf Deutschen, die im All waren. Auf seiner Mission mit der Raumfähre Columbia hat er Erfahrungen gemacht, von denen der Großteil der Menschheit nur träumen kann. Verständlich und unterhaltsam erklärt der Astronaut alles Wissenswerte über die Welt und den Weltraum – von der Relativitätstheorie bis zur Dunklen Materie.

Nikola Tesla is one of the most fascinating characters in the history of science. A brilliant inventor and eccentric visionary, his ideas were undoubtedly ahead of his time. His name today is synonymous with innovation. Yet he lived much of his life in poverty, feuded with fellow inventors and died in obscurity.

This is a book of curiosity and wonder. It's about some of the weirdest, wildest and most wonderful ideas in space science from astrophysicist and Wiradjuri woman, Dr Kirsten Banks. Discover planets that are darker than charcoal, mysteries that make us go "Wow!", objects that wander into our...