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Until the late nineteenth century, it was widely believed that an ancient Viking colony had survived on the unexplored and ice-locked coast of southeast Greenland. The Danish discovery of the isolated Inuit culture of the Ammassalick Fiord in 1884 did not fully dispel the myth. Now jump to present-day Greenland: four teenaged scientists, winners of United Nations scholarships, are excited to spend their summer counting reindeer for the celebrated...
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"A queer, mixed race writer working in a largely white, male field, science and conservation journalist Sabrina Imbler has always been drawn to the mystery of life in the sea, and particularly to creatures living in hostile or remote environments. Each essay in their debut collection profiles one such creature: the female octopus who starves herself while watching over her eggs, the Chinese sturgeon whose migration route has been decimated by pollution...
45) Future justice
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When a nuclear war reduces the world's population, some of the only survivors are scientists housed in warehouse bunkers.
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"He was history's most creative genius. What secrets can he teach us? The author of the acclaimed bestsellers Steve Jobs, Einstein, and Benjamin Franklin brings Leonardo da Vinci to life in this exciting new biography. Based on thousands of pages from Leonardo's astonishing notebooks and new discoveries about his life and work, Walter Isaacson weaves a narrative that connects his art to his science. He shows how Leonardo's genius was based on skills...
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"Sophie Jones is a physics prodigy on track to unlock the secrets of the universe. But when she meets Jake Kristopher during their first week at Yale they instantly feel a deep connection, as if they've known each other before. They quickly become a couple, and as college goes on, Sophie distances herself from academia as Jake intensely pursues a finance career. But when a shocking change forces Sophie into a new reality, she returns to physics and...
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Barely escaping a would-be abductor who has left a trail of victims in his wake, world traveler Miss Amity Doncaster discovers that her attacker has become obsessed with gossip that ties Amity to scientist Benedict Stanbridge, a spy for the throne who resolves to bring the killer to justice.
52) Darkman
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Dr. Peyton Westlake, on the verge of a synthetic skin breakthrough, is horribly disfigured when a sadistic criminal destroys his lab.
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It can be hard to picture what a scientist does. Some might imagine the archetypal mad scientist mixing explosive chemicals in a lab! While that's an amusing image, it's not reality. In this brainy book, an early introduction to STEM careers, aspiring young scientists will discover the wide-reaching disciplines of science in a comprehensible and fun narrative. They ll see photographs of scientists at work in many settings and even picture themselves...
56) Zero hour
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It is called zero point energy, and it really exists - a state of energy contained in all matter everywhere, and thus all but unlimited. Nobody has ever found a way to tap into it, however - until one scientist discovers a way. Or at least he thinks he has. The problem is, his machines also cause great earthquakes, even fissures in tectonic plates. One machine is buried deep underground; the other is submerged in a vast ocean trench. If Kurt Austin...
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Drs. Ephraim Goodweather and Nora Martinez race to create a biological weapon to destroy the creatures, Abraham Setrakian relentlessly searches for an ancient book that holds the key to defeating the sinister Master. Aware that he is now hunted by his handful of unlikely allies, the Master creates even more unstoppable bloodthirsty monsters.
58) Rapunzel
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Professor Everafter uses science, technology, engineering, and mathematics to make the tale of Rapunzel work better, such as anchoring Rapunzel's hair to allow it to carry the witch's weight.
60) Ball lightning
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When Chen's parents are incinerated before his eyes by a blast of ball lightning, he devotes his life to cracking the secret of this mysterious natural phenomenon. His search takes him to stormy mountaintops, an experimental military weapons lab, and an old Soviet science station. The more he learns, the more he comes to realize that ball lightning is just the tip of an entirely new frontier. While Chen's quest for answers gives purpose to his lonely...
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