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How much do you know about the radiation all around you? Your electronic devices swarm with it; the sun bathes you in it. It's zooming at you from cell towers, microwave ovens, CT scans, mammogram machines, nuclear power plants, deep space, even the walls of your basement. You cannot see, hear...

A heart-pumping exploration of the biggest explosions in history, from the Big Bang to mysterious activity on Earth and everything in between The overwhelming majority of celestial space is inactive and will remain forever unruffled. Similarly, more than 90 percent of the universe's 70 billion...

Brought to you by Penguin. The incredible book behind the primetime Channel 4 documentary, Peter: The Human Cyborg. Peter, a brilliant scientist, is told that he will lose everything he loves. His husband. His family. His friends. His ability to travel the world. All will be gone. But Peter will...

Peter Higgs: A Life in Pursuit of the Fundamental Early Life and Education Peter Ware Higgs was born on May 29, 1929, in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. His parents, Thomas Ware Higgs and Gertrude Maude Coghill, were both involved in the arts - his father was a sound engineer for the BBC, and his mother was a former classical pianist. Despite his parents' artistic inclinations, young Peter showed an early interest in science and mathematics. Higgs' childhood was marked by the tumultuous events of World War II. He spent much of his early years moving between London, Bristol, and Devon, as his ...

Does humanity have a destiny "in the stars"? Should a species triggering massive extinctions on its own planet instead stay put? This new book traces the waxing and waning of interest in space settlement through the decades, and offers a journalistic tour through the influential subculture attempting to shape a multiplanetary future. What motivates figures such as billionaires Elon Musk and Yuri Milner? How important have science fiction authors and filmmakers been in stirring enthusiasm for actual space exploration and settlement?