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The story of the Higgs boson - the so-called 'God particle' - and the man who thought of it In the summer of 1964, a reclusive young professor at the University of Edinburgh wrote two scientific papers... Zobraziť viac
Could there be a civilization on a mote of dust? How much of your fate have you made? Who cleans the universe... Zobraziť viac
Our eyes have been drawn away from the skies to our screens. We no longer look to the stars to forecast the weather, predict the seasons or plant our gardens. Most of us cannot even see the Milky Way... Zobraziť viac
Exam board: AQA Level & Subject: GCSE Combined Science: Trilogy First teaching: September 2016 Next exams: June 2025 To support students in their completion of the required practicals on their GCSE Science (9-1) course, the... Zobraziť viac
Unravelling the Mystery of the Atomic Nucleus is a history of atomic and nuclear physics. It begins in 1896 with the discovery of radioactivity, which leads to the discovery of the nucleus at the center of the atom... Zobraziť viac
The text is designed to make complex mathematical, statistical and spatial analytical methods more easily understood by providing essential details of the topic under discussion and straightforward quantitative problems preceded by worked examples... Zobraziť viac
Specialist contributors from Europe, North America and Australasia examine the impacts of changing climates on the functioning and development of physical biological environments including glaciers, water resources, landforms, soils, ... Zobraziť viac
This book introduces an interdisciplinary framework to understand the interaction between terrestrial ecosystems and climate change. It reviews basic meteorological, hydrological and ecological concepts to examine the physical, ... Zobraziť viac
Bringing his cosmic perspective to civilization on Earth, Neil deGrasse Tyson, bestselling author of Astrophysics for People in a Hurry, shines new light on the crucial fault lines of our time–war, politics, religion, truth, beauty, gender, race... Zobraziť viac
A mesmerizing trip to the strange new world of white holes, from Carlo Rovelli, the bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics... Zobraziť viac
The New York Times bestselling author returns with a mind-opening exploration of how size defines life on Earth... Zobraziť viac
Immense, strange and infinite, the world of modern physics often feels impenetrable to the undiscerning eye - a jumble of muons, gluons and quarks, impossible to explain without several degrees and a research position at CERN... Zobraziť viac
Tour the incredible scope of the cosmos as we know it with the editor in chief of Astronomy, featuring jaw-dropping illustrations and full-color photography from the magazine’s archives, much of it never before published... Zobraziť viac
His face is instantly recognisable. His name is shorthand for genius. Today, he's a figurehead as much as a man, symbolic of things larger than himself: of scientific progress, of the human mind, even of the age. But who was Einstein really? ... Zobraziť viac
Discover the wonders of the Universe with this indispensable guide. The Night Sky is chock full of information explaining what, when and how to observe space and understanding the night sky... Zobraziť viac
All of the Earth's ocean, from the equator to the poles, is a single engine powered by sunlight - a blue machine... Zobraziť viac
A Nobel Laureate explains quantum entanglement and teleportation and why Einstein was wrong about the nature of reality... Zobraziť viac
Astrophysicist George Smoot spent decades pursuing the origin of the cosmos, "the holy grail of science," a relentless hunt that led him from the rain forests of Brazil to the frozen wastes of Antarctica... Zobraziť viac
Asteroid Bennu is the most hazardous asteroid in the Solar System, with a chance of impacting the Earth in 2182. In 2020 a NASA mission landed on the surface of Bennu and collected material from its surface for return to Earth in September 2023... Zobraziť viac
