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A Journey Through The Universe: A traveler's guide from the centre of the sun to the edge of the unknown by New Scientist
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There's a whole universe out there... Imagine you had a spacecraft capable of travelling through interstellar space. You climb in, blast into orbit, fly out of the solar system and keep going. Where do you end up, and what do you see along the way? The answer is: mostly nothing. Space is astonishingly, ...Show more
How Evolution Explains Everything About Life : From Darwin's Brilliant Idea to Today's Epic Theory ( New Scientist Instant Expert) by New Scientist Staff
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How did we get here? All cultures have a creation story, but a little over 150 years ago Charles Darwin introduced a revolutionary new one. We, and all living things, exist because of the action of evolution on the first simple life form and its descendants. We now know that it has taken 3.8 billions o ...Show more
How Numbers Work: Discover the strange and beautiful world of mathematics by New Scientist Staff
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Think of a number between one and ten. No, hang on, let's make this interesting. Between zero and infinity. Even if you stick to the whole numbers, there are a lot to choose from - an infinite number in fact. Throw in decimal fractions and infinity suddenly gets an awful lot bigger (is that even possibl ...Show more
How Your Brain Works: Inside the Most Complicated Object in the Universe by New Scientist
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WHAT MAKES YOU, YOU? The brain has long been a source of fascination. In 1819, the radical thinker and surgeon William Lawrence put it like this: "It is strongly suspected that a Newton or Shakespeare excels other mortals only...by having an extra inch of brain in the right place." Today, many such susp ...Show more
Human Origins: 7 million years and counting by New Scientist Staff
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Where did we come from? Where are we going? Homo sapiens is the most successful, the most widespread and the most influential species ever to walk the Earth. In the blink of an evolutionary eye we have spread around the globe, taken control of Earth's biological and mineral resources, transformed the en ...Show more
Machines that Think: Everything you need to know about the coming age of artificial intelligence by New Scientist
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Sometime in the future the intelligence of machines will exceed that of human brain power. So are we on the edge of an AI-pocalypse, with superintelligent devices superseding humanity, as predicted by Stephen Hawking? Or will this herald a kind of Utopia, with machines doing a far better job at complex ...Show more
This is Planet Earth: Your ultimate guide to the world we call home by New Scientist
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The ancient Greeks called it Gaia; the Romans Terra. We know it simply as Earth, the planet we call home. And what a planet it is. Formed around 4.6 billion years ago from the debris of the big bang and long-dead stars, at first it was nothing special, but somehow it evolved to become the most am ...Show more
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