Science

Science (from the Latin scientia, meaning “knowledge”) is the effort to discover, and increase human understanding of how the physical world works. Through controlled methods, science uses observable physical evidence of natural phenomena to collect data, and analyzes this information to explain what and how things work.

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The Breath of the Gods: The History and Future of the Wind
Off the Scales: The Inside Story of Ozempic and the Race to Cure Obesity
Tigers Between Empires: The Improbable Return of Great Cats to the Forests of Russia and China
Do Aliens Speak Physics?: And Other Questions about Science and the Nature of Reality
Forests (Adventure Through Nature)
The Monsters We Make: Murder, Obsession, and the Rise of Criminal Profiling
The Hidden Seasons: A Calendar of Nature’s Clues
Morbidly Curious: A Scientist Explains Why We Can't Look Away
Ripples on the Cosmic Ocean: An Environmental History of Our Place in the Solar System
Unbearable: Five Women and the Perils of Pregnancy in America
Physics for Cats
Quo vAIdis
The Nuclear Age: An Epic Race for Arms, Power, and Survival
The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2025: A Collection of the Year's Most Insightful Essays on the Natural World, Climate Change, and the Wonders of Science Curated by Susan Orlean
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    Time's Second Arrow: Evolution, Order, and a New Law of Nature
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    Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know
    Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art
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    Playground
    Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It
    What Happened To You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing
    Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI
    No More Tears: The Dark Secrets of Johnson & Johnson
    Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection
    Sapiens: A Graphic History, Volume 1 - The Birth of Humankind
    Not Till We Are Lost (Bobiverse, #5)
    If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All
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    What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
    The Origin of Species
    The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
    The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
    Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
    Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
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    The Gene: An Intimate History

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