James Trefil takes the reader on a thrilling tour across the borders of current scientific
knowledge-from astronomy to genetics, from information technology to cosmology, the great contested questions that preoccupy researchers today and will become headlines tomorrow. In elegant, witty ...
Spanning disciplines from biology to cosmology, chemistry to psychology to physics, Michael Brooks thrillingly captures
the excitement of scientific discovery.Science’s best-kept secret is this: even today, thereare experimental results that the most brilliant scientists cannot explain. In the past, ...
In a wonderful synthesis of science, history, and imagination, Gino Segrè, an internationally renowned theoretical
physicist, embarks on a wide-ranging exploration of how the fundamental scientific concept of temperature is bound up with the very essence of both life and ...
Between Ape and Artilect is edited by noted AI researcher Ben Goertzel, and produced by
futurist organization Humanity+. During 2010-12, Dr. Goertzel conducted a series of textual interviews with researchers in various areas of cutting-edge science -- artificial general intelligence, ...
Volume 2 of a two-volume set. This important work covers basic mathematical formulas, statistics, nomograms,
physical constants, classical mechanics, special theory of relativity, general theory of relativity, hydrodynamics and aerodynamics, boundary value problems in mathematical physics, heat and thermodynamics, ...
Space elevators. Internet-enabled contact lenses. Cars that fly by floating on magnetic fields. This is
the stuff of science fiction—it’s also daily life in the year 2100.Renowned theoretical physicist Michio Kaku details the developments in computer technology, artificial intelligence, medicine, ...
This book reviews progress towards quantum simulators based on photonic and hybrid light-matter systems, covering
theoretical proposals and recent experimental work. Quantum simulators are specially designed quantum computers. Their main aim is to simulate and understand complex and inaccessible quantum ...
General readers, students of American history, and professional historians alike will profit from reading this
engaging presentation of an aspect of American history conspicuously absent from the usual textbooks and popular presentations of the political thought of early America.Thomas Jefferson ...