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80 pages, colour illustrations
Cover subtitle: From atoms to AI and from gravity to genes... how science shapes our world Contents: Why do ideas matter? -- The scientific method -- Everything is made of atoms -- Elements can be ordered -- Everything revolves around the sun -- What goes up... must come down! -- The universe is expanding -- Life and be ordered -- Species change over time -- Bacteria causes infectious disease -- It's all in the genes -- Energy cannot be created or destroyed -- Charged particles create electricity -- Fossil fuels will run out -- Machines can solve problems -- Information is valuable -- Machines can learn -- Future big ideas -- More big thinkers you should know about -- Timeline of big science ideas
Summary: Ideas are important. A single idea can start a war, save billions of lives, and even rearrange whole planetary systems. They can be totally wrong but believed, or undoubtedly right and ignored. What's more, they're free, and anyone can have one - including you! This book looks at 15 brilliant science ideas and more than 50 ingenious thinkers - whether they were right or wrong! From established ideas like atoms, electricity, and the solar system, right up to recent discoveries like AI and genetics. This is a fresh approach to science from the makers of AQUILA Magazine.