Tag: Science

May 9th Aliens: Prominent Scientists on the Search for Extraterrestrial Life by Jim Al-Khalili,  (Author, Editor) In these lively and fascinating essays, scientists from around the world weigh in on the latest advances in the search for intelligent life in the universe and discuss...

Exoplanets: Asking the Right Questions in Our Strange New Universe by Michael E. Summers, &  James Trefil The past few years have seen an incredible explosion in our knowledge of the universe. Since its 2009 launch, the Kepler satellite has discovered more than two...

Waiting for Contact: The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence by Lawrence Squeri Imagine a network of extraterrestrials in radio contact with each other across the universe, superior beings who hail from advanced civilizations quadrillions of miles away, just waiting for Earth to tune in. Some...

MAPPING the HEAVENS: the Radical Scientific Ideas that Reveal the Cosmos by Priyamvada Natarajan This book provides a tour of the “greatest hits” of cosmological discoveries, the ideas that reshaped our universe over the past century.The cosmos, once understood as a stagnant place, filled...

The Genius of Birds by Jennifer Ackerman Bird brains no longer new research is demonstrating that birds are astonishingly intelligent creatures. In fact, some birds rival primates and even humans in their remarkable forms of intelligence. Like humans, many birds have enormous brains relative...

13.8: The Quest to Find the True Age of the Universe and the Theory of Everything by John Gribbin The twentieth century gave us two great theories of physics. The general theory of relativity describes the behavior of very large things, and quantum theory...

Fluke: The Math and Myth of Coincidence by Joseph Mazur What is the true nature of chance? This is the question Joseph Mazur examines in his new book. What are the chances? is often the question we ask ourselves when we encounter the strangest...

The Cosmic Web: Mysterious Architecture of the Universe by J. Richard Gott III J. Richard Gott, professor of astrophysics at Princeton University, looks at the large overall structure of the Universe. He was among the first cosmologists to propose that the structure of our...