Science

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  Six Impossible Things

  John Gribbin

  Quantum physics is strange. It tells us that a particle can be in two places...

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  The Order of Time

  Carlo Rovelli

  The bestselling author of ‘Seven Brief Lessons on Physics’ takes us on an enchanting, consoling...

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  The Art of Statistics: Learning from Data

  David Spiegelhalter

  Statistics has played a leading role in our scientific understanding of the world for centuries,...

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  The Penguin Book of Outer Space Exploration

  John Logsdon

  The fascinating story of how NASA sent humans to explore outer space, told through a...

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  Boom!

  Bob Berman

  Staff Pick

  For a book about extreme, destructive forces, this is not as grim a prospect...

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  The Planet Factory

  Elizabeth Tasker

  Staff Pick

  An engaging exploration of planetary formation, the Solar System and the myriad unlikely and...

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  Fallout

  Fred Pearce

  Staff Pick

  This tour through the sites and legacy of nuclear power is not exactly picaresque...

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  The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs

  Steve Brusatte

  Staff Pick

  You can never be too old for a book about dinosaurs, but here is a...

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  Cosmic Impact

  Andrew May

  As end-of-the-world scenarios go, an apocalyptic collision with an asteroid or comet is the new...

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  Our Universe

  Jo Dunkley

  Staff Pick

  This is your basic one-stop shop for the subject – a simple, straightforward astronomical...

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  Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

  Yuval Noah Harari

  Planet Earth is 4.5 billion years old. In just a fraction of that time, one...

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  The Origin of Species

  Charles Darwin

  When the eminent naturalist Charles Darwin returned from South America on board the HMS Beagle...

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