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In April 2019, the Event Horizon Telescope team unveiled the first ever image of a super massive black hole. Based on extensive research and interviews with members of the team, this is a story of unique technological innovation and scientific breakthroughs, but more important, it's a story of human curiosity and triumph.

Chemistry is everywhere. With easy-to-understand examples and fun experiments to try at home, chemistry professor Kate Biberdorf seeks to ignite your passion for science and change the way you experience the world.

Steve Brusatte brings young scientists and readers everywhere into his world of massive herbivores and fearsome predators, daily unexpected discoveries, and all the new science used to learn about some of the world's oldest beings. Even though the dinosaurs roamed the earth millions of years ago, we're still piecing together new information about these ancient animals.

This book gives you the tools to better understand what's behind climate change, what might be in store during the coming decades, and how we can begin to reverse the detrimental effects mankind has had on the atmosphere.

A no-nonsense and helpful guide on how to cope with a slew of mental-health issues that are hell-bent on ruining the lives of millions of people worldwide.

The periodic table is a crowning scientific achievement, but it's also a treasure trove of adventure, greed, betrayal, and obsession. The fascinating tales in this book follow elements on the table as they play out their parts in human history, finance, mythology, conflict, the arts, medicine, and the lives of the (frequently) mad scientists who discovered them.

Dive deep into the world of weather with meteorologist, Al Roker. Listeners will learn about the conditions and elements that generate rare weather occurrences like spider lightning, derechos, and fogsicles.

Today, when killing the enemy can seem tantamount to playing a video game, what constitutes warfare? Phelps, former commander of a Remotely Piloted Aircraft unit, addresses these questions and others.

In the two decades since astronomers first discovered the existence of a planet outside of our solar system, "exoplanetology" has become the hottest specialty in astrophysics. To date, more than one thousand exoplanets have been found. Scientific American delves into a quest that sometimes sounds more like science fiction than science.

Neil deGrasse Tyson and physicist James Trefil explore the big questions that humanity has been posing for millennia--How did life begin? What is our place in the universe? Are we alone?--and provide answers based on the most current data, observations, and theories.