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'Forest bathing' or shinrin-yoku is a way of walking in the woods that was developed in Japan in the 1980s. It brings together ancient ways and wisdom with cutting-edge environmental health science....

Almost daily, headlines announce newly discovered links between cancers and their genetic causes. Science journalist Jessica Wapner vividly relates the backstory behind those headlines....

For centuries, scientists believed that living matter possessed a special quality—a spirit or essence—that differentiated it from nonliving matter. But by the nineteenth century, the scientific consensus was that the building blocks of one were identical to the building blocks of the other....

Written by award-winning science writer John Emsley, this informative and highly enjoyable book explains the what, the why and the wherefore of the elements....

Why is it impossible to spin your right foot clockwise while you draw a six with your right hand? Can you extract DNA from a strawberry daiquiri? Find out....

An extraordinary, strange, and startlingly beautiful exploration of smell, the least understood of our five senses....

Welcome to CHEMISTRY NERD Tired of sitting through boring chemistry lectures? This entertaining book is filled with mind-blowing information and a ...

In volume 5 readers will find a carefully organized and convincing explanation of the relationship between calcium and soil fertility. It is not ...

From Beethoven's connection to plumbing to why rotten eggs smell like sulfur, the technical explanations included in this scientific primer tackle 99 chemistry-related questions....

DMT Extraction Guide: A Concise Step-by-Step Guide for Beginners Unlock the mysteries of DMT with this clear, concise, and beginner-friendly guide!...

resting anecdotes and engaging tales make science fun, meaningful, and accessible....

This handy resource is filled with several actionable tips, secret techniques. and established strategies to help you maximize your time, work, efforts, relationships, and potential to be successful. You can begin using these tips right away for leading a rewarding and fulfilling life....

If you have a chemistry exam tomorrow, thank goodness you're here. This book will help you memorize the entire periodic table in the fastest and easiest way possible....

Scientist, resistance fighter and Holocaust survivor Primo Levi was one of Italy's greatest writers and an internationally renowned chronicler of human nature. In his masterpiece The Periodic Table, he charts his incredible life story through the medium of chemistry....

The complex ecosystem of the Amazon covers an area about the size of the continental US. Approximately one of every four flowering plant species on earth resides in the Amazon. A single Amazonian river may contain more fish species than all the rivers in Europe combined....

The charges of the proton and electron are opposite and equal, even though the proton is bigger. But why are they equal? This is one of the deepest unresolved puzzles of physics.

Headlines warn that baby bottles leach dangerous chemicals, nonstick pans cause infertility, and plastic containers make us fat. Green chemistry could change all that....

Molecular Gastronomy documents the sensory phenomena of eating and uses basic physics to put to bed many culinary myths....

Explore the many possibilities of what your future may look like with these 24 lectures: a scientifically accurate and enlightening survey of today's most advanced research in fields such as engineering, biology, chemistry, and theoretical physics....

In Slime we'll meet the algae innovators working toward a sustainable future: from seaweed farmers in South Korea, to scientists using it to clean the dead zones in our waterways, to the entrepreneurs fighting to bring algae fuel and plastics to market....