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The Best Science Books of 2015
We’re making our book list and checking it twice: It’s the Best Science Books of 2015.
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The Space Car on the Red World
Comic artist Randall Munroe describes the Curiosity Rover, in not so many words, in this excerpt from “Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words.”
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Cosmic Connections: Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs
An excerpt from “Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs.”
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From Shaking Palsy to Parkinson’s: Defining a Neurodegenerative Disease
An excerpt from “Brain Storms: The Race to Unlock the Mysteries of Parkinson’s Disease.”
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From Atop an Ecuadorian Peak, an Epiphany About Nature
An excerpt from “The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt’s New World.”
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The Antenna That Detected the Big Bang
An excerpt from “The Geek Atlas: 128 Places Where Science and Technology Come Alive.”
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A Peek Inside the Mind of Elon Musk
An excerpt from the new biography “Elon Musk.”