Los autores nos invitan a una apasionante aventura intelectual en la que se cuestionará todo lo que creemos saber sobre la vida, la muerte, el universo y la propia realidad. El primer paso consiste en...

¿Qué es la conciencia? ¿Por qué estamos aquí? ¿De dónde viene todo: las leyes de la naturaleza, las estrellas, el universo?. Los seres humanos se han hecho estas preguntas desde siempre, y la ciencia...

From the speed of light to moving mountains -- and everything in between -- Zoom explores how the universe and its objects move. If you sit as still as you can in a quiet room, you might be able to convince...

The beating heart of the sun is the very pulse of life on earth. And from the ancients who plotted its path at Stonehenge to the modern scientists who unraveled the nuclear fusion reaction that turns...

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,...

Sitting still in a quiet room, you might just be able to convince yourself that nothing is moving. But air currents swirl about you. Blood rushes through your veins. The atoms in your chair jiggle furiously....

Looking at the night sky, you’d be forgiven for thinking it’s all quiet up there in space. But you’d be wrong. Extreme events are forever unfolding: galaxies explode, cosmic debris hurtles through the...

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...

The universe is literally made of light One hundred years after they were written, Marie Curie’s notebooks are still too radioactive to handle In 1974 we sent a message to star cluster M13. If any aliens...

Il Novecento è stato il secolo della fisica. Le scoperte sull’atomo, le sue particelle e l’architettura del cosmo hanno prodotto la nostra concezione di universo e tutta la tecnologia che plasma la vita...