True Science

Something strange is happening to us. The intelligent machines we’ve built to serve us have started to sound like us, look like us and even think like us. The line between real and artificial is dissolving… so, what awaits us in the uncanny valley?Across six episodes, award-winning journalist Marc Fennell will explore how AI will change us as humans.So much of the conversation around AI is about technology and speculation about the future. But this about us: how AI will change our sense of self, our sense of reality, the way we love and the way we grieve. Parents bring back a murdered son.

Stolen from her home and thrust into a strange, new world, Amara finds herself as an unwilling pawn at the middle of a sinister plot. As she struggles to make sense of it all, she must discover and develop the new powers an evil tyrant plans to take for his own. This new mastery is all that stands between her freedom and a horrific fate. She finds that she’s not alone, as an otherworldly and beautiful companion’s fate becomes inextricably linked with her own. They must flee their imprisonment and grow their power, and their bond.

They’re explosive and invisible. They’re extinct and never-ending. What are they? Science mysteries, of course! Get ready to crack the cases and the real science info wide open. You might need your goggles for this one.

Ryan Carter has spent his entire life living in the shadows, partially by choice, but also by necessity. At least, that’s what he tells himself. As a shadow manipulator who’s reluctant to use his powers too openly, Ryan is scraping by delivering pizzas in New Avalon’s industrial underbelly. He’s seen what happens to people with relatively minor powers like him who get noticed by the teams, corporations, or criminal factions. They end up owned, imprisoned, or dead. But when a mysterious woman with her own abilities and seemingly unlimited resources makes him an offer he can’t refuse…

Jane used to hunt vampires, but now she’s their queen. She’s holed up in the mountains with the Yellowrock Clan, enjoying a little peace, when a surprise attack on her people proves that trouble is brewing. Someone is using very old magic to launch a bid for power, and it’s all tied to the place where Jane was first drawn into the world of Leo Pellissier - the city of New Orleans. Jane is compelled to return to NOLA because someone is trying to destabilize the paranormal world order. And because she now sits near the top of the vampire world, the assault is her problem.

Rumors of dragon sightings are stirring up fears based on old stories that depict dragons as bloodthirsty, fire-breathing monsters. To protect his people, the Overking decrees that all dragons must die. Twelve-year-old Eliana knows the truth about dragons. After all, her best friend Winston is one! Fresh off an adventure where she saved her kingdom with her ability to communicate with Winston’s family, she is now excited to hone her skills through her Dragon Speaker apprenticeship.

The first book in this series, The End of Dark Cosmology, showed that ninety-five percent of the universe does not need to be missing. One conceptual correction—separating the cosmological constant from the energy of the quantum vacuum—reproduced the successes of dark matter and dark energy without invoking either. The coupling constant was derived from measured nuclear physics. Zero free parameters. No new particles. No new forces. This book takes the same formula and pushes it to its logical extremes.

From New York Times bestselling suspense author Terri Blackstock comes the third installment in her gripping survival series, where fear, hunger, and suspicion threaten to tear a fragile community apart--and one young man's life hangs in the balance. Eight months into a worldwide blackout, the...

Some women disappeared in crowded cities. Some vanished along dark roads. Some were last seen getting into cars, walking home, leaving work, or trusting the wrong person at the wrong time. Before the headlines, before the arrests, before the confessions, and before investigators understood the patterns, there were families waiting for answers. Before They Found the Bodies is a dark, gripping true crime collection about missing women, serial predators, failed investigations, cold case questions, and the long search for justice.

At least that’s what twelve-year-old Eliana has grown up hearing. Imagine her surprise when one morning in the forest she finds herself eye-to-eye with a young dragon. When she learns the dragon’s father has been missing since the last full moon, she vows to help.

La course automobile du royaume arc-en-ciel a lieu aujourd’hui et Talia et Bartleby ont hâte d’y participer. Grizelda, de son côté, est surtout prête à tout pour gagner.

Olśniewająca i zabójczo niebezpieczna: jak wiele można poświęcić w pogoni za modowym trendem? Zieleń o jadowitym, szmaragdowym odcieniu to jedno z najbardziej niezwykłych odkryć chemicznych przełomu XVIII i XIX wieku. Pożądana przez artystów i miłośników piękna, zyskała formę, której trudno było się oprzeć. Jednak jej niewątpliwy czar krył mroczną tajemnicę – związki arsenu. Zielony pigment w różnych wariantach – od zieleni Scheelego, szwajnfurckiej po paryską, choć niezwykle atrakcyjny, niósł ze sobą śmiertelne zagrożenie.

Maddie Graves-Winters has settled into married life with her husband, Nick, and is looking toward the future. When an invitation to a special retreat, strictly for psychics, lands in her lap, she decides it’s time for a leap of faith. As the owner of Casper Creek, a cosplay Western town in Kentucky, Hannah Hickok is in a precarious position. A recent incident involving the death of a tourist - and a member of her own coven - has Hannah struggling. That’s why she agrees to host a bunch of psychics in her town.

Departing from the Sanctus Reach after their ill-fated battle with the daemon Ku'gath Plaguefather, the Grey Knights encounter their nemesis again as they enter the warp. As the battle becomes one between Gared and Ku'gath himself, it falls to the Librarian to save his brothers...and his soul.

The Devil is in the Detail is a behind-the-scenes masterclass in forensic investigation. Dive into the gripping world of forensic investigation with Jo, a forensic scientist whose career spans from the Miami-Dade Police Department to London’s Metropolitan Police homicide division. In The Devil...

Saved by a rebel force she'd only ever heard rumors about, Rema finds herself in a forbidden place. She is finally safe - free from the king and Prince Lennek. But not everything is as it seems at the rebel fortress. Secrets are whispered, and loyalties are tested. Once Rema uncovers the truth of her heritage, will she flee? Or will she ascend to the throne, taking on the responsibility of an entire kingdom?

The True American tells the story of Raisuddin Bhuiyan, a Bangladesh Air Force officer who dreams of immigrating to America and working in technology. But days after 9/11, an avowed "American terrorist" named Mark Stroman, seeking revenge, walks into the Dallas minimart where Bhuiyan has found temporary work and shoots him, maiming and nearly killing him. Two other victims, at other gas stations, aren't so lucky, dying at once. The True American traces the making of these two men, Stroman and Bhuiyan, and of their fateful encounter.

Die monströsen Verbrechen an Gisèle Pelicot, die von ihrem Mann über Jahre betäubt und von ihm und fast 70 anderen Männern vergewaltigt wurde, haben die Welt erschüttert. Das sich anschließende Gerichtsverfahren avancierte zu einem der aufsehenerregendsten Prozesse der letzten Jahrzehnte, nicht nur wegen der Schwere der Schuld, sondern weil weithin klar wurde, dass das dort Verhandelte Millionen von Frauen betrifft.

Ptolemy Tompkins, collaborator on the New York Times bestselling Proof of Heaven and Proof of Angels, meets with an astrophysicist and delivers a stunning answer to the world's oldest question: God is real, and science proves it. Proof of God is the unlikely story of how this serious scientist...

Step into a world where nothing is ever quite what it seems. A collection of five twisted tales, from the gritty urban decay of 1970's South London to the sterile, quiet terror of a hospital ward, these stories explore the darkest corners of grief, faith, isolation, and survival.