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Much has been written about the challenges tech presents to equality and democracy. But we can either criticize big data and automation or steer it...
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Nvidia is the darling of the age of artificial intelligence: its chips are powering the generative-AI revolution, and demand is insatiable. For all the current...
How do magnets generate electricity? What is antimatter? Is time travel possible?Discover the answers to these and over 90 other big questions that explore the...
Discover the world of science as never before in this richly illustrated guide. The history of humankind has been driven by scientific discovery. From our...
The kingdom of fungi has survived all five major extinction events. They are the architects of the natural world, integral to all life. They sustain...
A groundbreaking tour of the overlooked science of human diversityReal diversity isn’t skin deep. Over the past 100,000 years, as humans expanded into every biome...
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A beautiful new hardback anniversary edition of the multi-million copy sensationINCLUDES A NEW AFTERWORD FROM YUVAL NOAH HARARIWhat makes us brilliant? What makes us deadly?...
The way autoimmune disease is viewed and treated is undergoing a major change millions of people suffer from these conditions. For many patients, the key...
Congratulations! You're the proud owner of the most complex information processing device in the known universe. The human brain comes equipped with all sorts of...
How did we end up in a world where humans coexist with technologies we can no longer fully control or understand?George Dyson plots an unexpected...
All humans share three origins: the beginning of our individual lives, the appearance of life on Earth, and the formation of our planetary home. Wallace...
Using the papers from Einstein, Copernicus, Galilei, Kepler and Newton, this title explains how these works changed the course of science, ushering astronomy and physics...
Shortlisted for the 2018 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-FictionShe Has Her Mother's Laugh presents a profoundly original perspective on what we pass along from generation...
In this fascinating foray into the millennia-long relationship between science and military power, acclaimed astrophysicist and ",the world's best science communicator", (Times Literary Supplement) Neil...
The term ",metaverse", is suddenly everywhere, from debates over Fortnite to the pages of The New York Times to the speeches of Mark Zuckerberg, who...
Epigenetics upends natural selection and genetic mutation as the sole engines of evolution, and offers startling insights into our future heritable traits. In the 1700s,...
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