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New Scientist New Scientist
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Join New Scientist on a mind-expanding rollercoaster ride through intelligence, creativity, your unconscious and beyond.Congratulations! You’re the proud owner of the most complex information processing device in the known universe…
How fat do you have to be to become bulletproof?
Why do people have eyebrows?
Why do pineapples have spines?
How much does a head weigh?
What affects the color…
New Scientist
A Journey Through The Universe is a grand tour of the most amazing celestial objects and how they fit together to build the cosmos.
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Why do birds sing at dawn? What’s the slowest a plane can fly without stalling and falling out of the sky? And how long can you keep a tiger cub…
Originally published in the United States of America in 2020 as Where Do Astronauts Put Their Dirty Underwear?
Could there be a doorway to the multiverse in our backyard? It’s lucky you’re here. But for a series of incredible coincidences and roads not taken, your life could be…
New Scientist’s brilliant million-selling Christmas book comes of age, exploring everything from the science of bubbles to whether cats are better than dogs
More questions and answers from the popular ‘Last word’ column.
The ultimate guide to your amazing existence –Jacket.
Shout ‘Eureka!’ all year round with this bumper new gift book from New Scientist: find out why flamingos are pink, why we get morning breath, how to measure the speed…
The End of Money is an essential introduction to cryptocurrencies and the blockchain revolution which has been hailed as the greatest advancement since the invention of the internet.
A journey through 55 alternative realities, parallel worlds and possible futures from the million-selling New Scientist series.
Everything you need to know about your brain: an eye-opening, illustrated handbook.
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This Is Planet Earth is dedicated to the wonders of Planet Earth, the most amazing place in the known Universe.
The story of how our ancestors made the first tentative steps towards becoming human, how we lost our fur but gained language, fire and tools, and how we strode out…
More surprising science and fascinating facts from the million-selling New Scientist series.
Everything you need to know about being human from New Scientist
A little over a century ago, a young Albert Einstein presented his general theory of relativity to the world and utterly transformed our understanding of the universe. In Where the…
Why The Universe Exists takes you deep into the world of particle physics to explore how the universe functions at the smallest scales.
In How Your Brain Works leading neuroscientists and New Scientist introduce the evolution and anatomy of the brain viewed through traits such as: memory, emotions, sleep, sensing and perception.
In The Quantum World leading physicists and New Scientist take you on a journey through quantum theory, its mind-bending properties and the technologies transforming our world.
Machines That Think explores how artificial intelligence helps us understand human intelligence, machines that compose music and write stories - and asks if AI is really a threat.
The journey of a lifetime exploring the question of whether life is inevitable or a one-off fluke, and how it got kick-started.
From the phenomenal New Scientist series, with over 2,500,000 copies sold
Every year, readers send in thousands of questions to New Scientist, the world’s best-selling science weekly, in the hope…
A new book from the million-selling New Scientist series that will blow your mind, and then put it back together again.
A voyage through the mind to discover what consciousness really is, and what we can learn when it goes awry.
The Horrible Histories but for science – packed with all the gross and weird bits.
Everything you need to know about your brain: an eye-opening handbook.
How Numbers Work is a tour of the mind-blowing but beautiful realm of numbers and the mathematical rules that connect them.
The original New Scientist Christmas book from its million-selling series, which explores everything from
The second New Scientist Christmas book from its million-selling series, which explores everything from why our hair turns grey to whether bumblebees really defy the laws of physics
Everything you needed to know - and didn’t - about the animal kingdom, from multimillion-copy-selling New Scientist.
Paul Frame
Synthesizes Welsh history of science during the long eighteenth century.
'A World of New Ideas': 1650-1820 is a series of two volumes revealing the often-forgotten contributions made by Welsh scientists…
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First published in 2014 in the UK as Question everything by Profile Books –Title page verso.
Incredible discoveries from the fringes of the universe to the inner workings of our minds--all from nothing!
New Scientist,Graham Lawton
A myth-busting, scientifically proven guide to making you live longer and live healthier - without the faddy diets
New Scientist,Helen Thomson
A myth-busting, scientifically proven guide to living a healthier, happier life - without the self-help fads
New Scientist,Stephen Hawking,Graham Lawton
A journey through life, the universe and everything.
