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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.

Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It
The Hidden Seasons: A Calendar of Nature’s Clues
Physics for Cats
The Nuclear Age: An Epic Race for Arms, Power and Survival
Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy
Nightmare Obscura: A Dream Engineer's Guide Through the Sleeping Mind
When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows...: Common Knowledge and the Mysteries of Money, Power, and Everyday Life
This Is for Everyone: The Unfinished Story of the World Wide Web
Why Rats Laugh and Jellyfish Sleep: And Other Enchanting Stories of Evolution
Humanish: What Talking to Your Cat or Naming Your Car Reveals About the Uniquely Human Need to Humanize
Facing Infinity: Black Holes and Our Place on Earth
The Shape of Wonder: How Scientists Think, Work, and Live
The Last Extinction: The Real Science Behind the Death of the Dinosaurs
Seven Rivers: A Journey Through the Currents of Human History
Rocket Dreams: Musk, Bezos, and the Inside Story of the New, Trillion-Dollar Space Race
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  • The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
    Abundance
    Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know
    Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
    Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art
    If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All
    No More Tears: The Dark Secrets of Johnson & Johnson
    Playground
    Elon Musk
    Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It
    To the Moon and Back
    Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy
    Not Till We Are Lost (Bobiverse, #5)
    What Happened To You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing
    Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI
    The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootStiff by Mary RoachA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonThe Disappearing Spoon by Sam KeanThe Poisoner's Handbook by Deborah Blum
    Modern Science Nonfiction
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    Outliers by Malcolm GladwellFreakonomics by Steven D. LevittThe Tipping Point by Malcolm GladwellNickel and Dimed by Barbara EhrenreichBlink by Malcolm Gladwell
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    Space Horror
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    A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonA Brief History of Time by Stephen HawkingThe Selfish Gene by Richard DawkinsCosmos by Carl SaganGuns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
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    A Brief History of Time
    A Short History of Nearly Everything
    The Selfish Gene
    Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
    Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
    Cosmos
    The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
    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
    "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character
    The Gene: An Intimate History

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