The Science category has 986 audiobooks on Listento.it, with an average listener rating of 4.5★ across 9,896 ratings. The most-rated is Astrophysics for People in a Hurry.
Healing Mushrooms
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Uncover the Incredible World of Health and Nutrients, and Discover How to Prevent or Cure Ailments with Medicinal Mushrooms! Did you know that mushrooms have been used and consumed worldwide for thousands of years, both as a food and medicine? Most cultures in the Western world have not come to appreciate and understand mushrooms in the same way that people in many other parts of the world do. Would you like to learn how? Would you like to: Enhance your health and prolong your life expectancy? Use natural healing properties of mushrooms? Cure your existing ailments and prevent future ones? Consuming mushrooms for food is generally a healthy habit, as they have a small amount of unsaturated fats while providing necessary nutrients such as protein and carbohydrates. But there are more than 800 different mushrooms that have proven medicinal properties. With this comprehensive guide to using medicinal mushrooms, you will discover the untapped power that will improve your health and prolong your life. You will learn how to use different types of mushrooms to heal existing diseases and prevent future ones. This book will show you everything you need to know about medicinal mushrooms, so you can immediately start to live a better and healthier life.
©2020 Barton Press (P)2021 Barton Press
Smashing Physics
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The first insider account of the work at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, the discovery of the Higgs particle - and what it all means for our understanding of the laws of nature. The discovery of the Higgs boson made headlines around the world. Two scientists, Peter Higgs and François Englert, whose theories predicted its existence, shared a Nobel Prize. The discovery was the culmination of the largest experiment ever run, the ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN's Large Hadron Collider. But what really is a Higgs boson and what does it do? How was it found? And how has its discovery changed our understanding of the fundamental laws of nature? And what did it feel like to be part of it? Jon Butterworth is one of the leading physicists at CERN and this book is the first popular inside account of the hunt for the Higgs. It is a story of incredible scientific collaboration, inspiring technological innovation and ground-breaking science. It is also the story of what happens when the world's most expensive experiment blows up, of neutrinos that may or may not travel faster than light, and the reality of life in an underground bunker in Switzerland. This book will also leave you with a working knowledge of the new physics and what the discovery of the Higgs particle means for how we define the laws of nature. It will take you to the cutting edge of modern scientific thinking. Jon Butterworth is one of the leading physicists on the Large Hadron Collider and is Head of Physics and Astronomy at UCL. He writes the popular Life & Physics blog for the Guardian and has written articles for a range of publications including the Guardian and New Scientist. Jon has appeared on BBC Radio 4's Today Programme, Material World, The Infinite Money Cage, BBC Newsnight, Horizon, Channel 4 News, and Al Jazeera. He frequently gives public lectures including at the Welcome Institute and the Royal Institution.
©2014 Jon Butterworth (P)2014 Audible Studios
Sounds of the Night
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Eerie screams, quiet snuffling and snippets of song are just some of the wildlife sounds that can be heard after dark. While some animals turn in for the night, others are getting ready to begin their 'day' and for some species, such as the Red Fox, Badger, Tawny Owl, and Nightjar, the period from dusk to dawn signifies the peak of their activity. This publication features a selection on the best time to hear them. Use it to identify those mysterious sounds that can often be heard resonating through the night air. Each track includes an audio announcement of the species featured. Track listing: 1. Nightingale, Luscinia megarhynchos 2. Nightjar, Caprimulgus europaeus 3. Grasshopper Warbler, Locustella naevia 4. Corncrake, Crex crex 5. Bittern, Botarus stellaris 6. Manx Shearwater, Puffinus puffinus 7. Tawny Owl, Strix aluco 8. Long-eared Owl, Asio otus 9. Short-eared Owl, Asio flammeus 10. Little Owl, Athene noctua 11. Barn Owl, Tyto alba 12. Robin, Erithacus rubecula 13. Fallow Deer, Dama dama 14. Red Deer, Cervus elaphus 15. Red Fox, Vulpes vulpes 16. Badger, Meles meles 17. Hedgehog, Erinaceus europaeus 18. Greater Horseshoe Bat, Rhinolophus ferrumequinum 19. Lesser Horseshoe Bat, Rhinolophus hipposideros 20. Daubenton’s Bat, Myotis daubentoni 21. Common Pipistrelle, Pipistrellus pipistrellus 22. Noctule, Nyctalus noctula 23. Serotine, Eptesicus serotinus 24. Dawn Chorus.
©2012 The British Library Board (P)2012 The British Library Board
Il mio infinito
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Fin dagli esordi dell'umanità la volta stellata è sempre stata la culla di dèi e cosmogonie, racconti per esorcizzare il mistero della vita e della morte. Nel contempo, in ogni civiltà, alla visione religiosa del mondo si sono contrapposte menti curiose che hanno cercato spiegazioni razionali dei fenomeni naturali e celesti. Questo audiolibro racconta come si è evoluta la nostra capacità di leggere il cielo e con essa la visione scientifica del mondo, dagli astronomi della Grecia classica alla nascita della scienza moderna con Galileo e Keplero alle scoperte di Newton,- per arrivare all'astronomia e alla fisica quantistica dopo le rivoluzioni del Novecento. Ci pone di fronte ai problemi cui ancora la scienza non sa rispondere: l'origine dell'universo e della vita. Ci interroga sulla natura del nostro universo: è tutto ciò che esiste? E finito o infinito nel tempo e nello spazio? E uno fra tanti? Com'è possibile che da una caotica zuppa di particelle elementari si sia originato il Cosmo gerarchicamente ordinato, le stelle e galassie, dai cui elementi è nata la vita biologica evolutasi fino ad arrivare a quello straordinario strumento di conoscenza che è il cervello umano? A tanta meraviglia si può rispondere invocando un Creatore, oppure accettando la bellezza di un mondo governato dalle leggi della materia senza altri fini.
©2014 Baldini & Castoldi Srl (P)2019 Audible Studios
Lucky Planet
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Why Earth’s life-friendly climate makes it exceptional - and what that means for the likelihood of finding intelligent extraterrestrial life We have long fantasized about finding life on planets other than our own. Yet even as we become aware of the vast expanses beyond our solar system, it remains clear that Earth is exceptional. The question is: Why? In Lucky Planet, astrobiologist David Waltham argues that Earth’s climate stability is what makes it uniquely able to support life, and it is nothing short of luck that made such conditions possible. The four-billion-year stretch of good weather that our planet has experienced is statistically so unlikely that chances are slim that we will ever encounter intelligent extraterrestrial others. Citing the factors that typically control a planet’s average temperature - including the size of its moon, as well as the rate of the Universe’s expansion - Waltham challenges the prevailing scientific consensus that Earth-like planets have natural stabilizing mechanisms that allow life to flourish. A lively exploration of the stars above and the ground beneath our feet, Lucky Planet seamlessly weaves the story of Earth and the worlds orbiting other stars to give us a new perspective of the surprising role chance plays in our place in the universe.
©2014 David Waltham (P)2014 Audible, Inc.
Through Animals' Eyes, Again
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From the author of Through Animals' Eyes comes more true stories from the rare perspective of someone who not only cares for the animals she treats, but also has never wanted nor tried to tame or change them. Lynn Cuny founded Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation (WRR) in 1977 in her backyard in San Antonio. It has since grown to 187 acres and now rescues more than 7,000 animals annually and maintains an emergency hotline 365 days a year. Native animals are released back into the wild, and those non-native or severely injured animals that cannot be released become permanent Sanctuary residents. Through her stories, Lynn hopes to dispel the belief that animals do not reason, have emotions, or show compassion for each other. Lynn's stories cover the humorous and the tragic, the surprising and the inevitable. The animals she describes range from the orphaned baby Rhesus monkey who found a new mother in an old monkey rescued from a lab, to the brave red-tailed hawk who was illegally shot, but healed to soar again. The stories will touch your heart and help you see "through animals' eyes."
©2006 Lynn Marie Cuny (P)2013 Redwood Audiobooks
Fintech in a Flash
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A comprehensive guide to financial technology! The book has achieved rank 30 in Non Fiction during its free promotion and 300 copies have been downloaded with no promotion done in the first three days. It has reached number one ranking in its two main categories. A great opportunity for an energetic person to read their hearts out.
©2017 Simtac Ltd (P)2017 Simtac Ltd
Rational Science Vol. V: Introducing Rope Hypothesis and Thread Theory
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Monk E. Mind uses the rational scientific method to expose mainstream "scientific" nonsense, and present an underlying physical mechanism for all of reality.
©2016-2017 Monk E. Mind (P)2017 Monk E. Mind
Evolution Boomerang
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Evolution is usually thought of a slow, undetected process, happening over hundreds, even millions of years. But when humans enter the picture, whether they apply new insecticides, over-fish or dump pollutants, evolution accelerates changes in nature ... to the point where humans now must devise ways to stop or reverse the process. Producer Barbara Bogaev presents three cases where just by making one move, we’ve inadvertently produced a counter effect. Joined by noted evolution scientist and marine biologist Steve Palumbi of Stanford University, Evolution Boomerang looks at insecticide resistant cotton boll worms, Atlantic salmon with manipulated genetic traits and promiscuous bacteria that is adapting to toxic PCB’s. The Soundprint documentary series features the best work of top radio producers. The award winning documentaries are renowned for drawing the listener into the story with compelling interviews, authentic voices and rich sound. From memoirs to science, health and popular culture, Soundprint creates a powerful experience the listener will not soon forget. Evolution Boomerang was produced with support from the National Science Foundation. Here are some related Soundprint documentaries: The Neglected Ape Produced by: Neenah EllisPlastics: Here Today, Here Tomorrow Produced by: Howard Kohn and Vicki Monks Surviving Extinction Produced by: Soundprint StaffVavilov’s Ghost Produced by: Neenah EllisSoundprint Executive Producer: Moira RankinTechnical Director: Anna Maria de FreitasAudio Engineer: Jared WeissbrotAssociate Producer: Katie Gott
©2005 SMCI (P)2013 SMCI
Visual Foresight and the Delphic Oracle
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Technologically speaking, we are creating our own version of the Oracle of Delphi. But this time we are not relying on outdated mythological beliefs or superstitious thinking. Instead of invoking magical incantations (or succumbing to misunderstood gaseous fumes), we are designing elaborate software programs that have the ability to allow machines to learn autonomously and then analyze tomorrow's outcomes today. Science, in other words, is taking the promise of Pythia and making it a reality in machine hardware. This can and will occur because artificial intelligence (unlike our own) can evolve at an ever accelerating rate. Vestri is merely the forerunner of a new kind of Oracle, one which is algorithmically programmed and can access enormous amounts of data worldwide and (on the mathematical basis of game theory) divine what the Greek gods of yesteryear, such as Apollo, could not. This audiobook was written by Kelly Lane, a 12-year-old middle school student, whose first book, When Computers Become Human, was published by the MSAC Philosophy Group when he was 11 and has subsequently been translated in Mandarin and published in China.
©2018 David C. Lane and Kelly Lane (P)2018 David C. Lane and Kelly Lane
The Animal Dialogues
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The Animal Dialogues tells of Craig Childs' own chilling experiences among the grizzlies of the Arctic, sharks off the coast of British Columbia and in the turquoise waters of Central America, jaguars in the bush of northern Mexico, mountain lions, elk, Bighorn Sheep, and others. More than chilling, however, these stories are lyrical, enchanting, and reach beyond what one commonly assumes an "animal story" is or should be. The Animal Dialogues is a book about another world that exists alongside our own, an entire realm of languages and interactions that humans rarely get the chance to witness. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.
©1997, 2007 Craig Childs (P)2019 Hachette Audio
The Feynman Lectures on Physics: Volume 8, Feynman on Light
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For more than 30 years, Richard P. Feynman's three-volume Lectures on Physics has been known worldwide as the classic resource for students and professionals alike. Ranging from the most basic principles of Newtonian physics through such formidable theories as Einstein's general relativity, superconductivity, and quantum mechanics, Feynman's lectures stand as a monument of clear exposition and deep insight. This timeless audio serves as a comprehensive library of essential physics by a legend in science. Volume 8 makes up a course in light, and includes chapters on geometrical optics, diffraction, interference, electromagnetic radiation, and more.
(P)2000 Perseus Publishing
Early Origins of Life
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This gives a brief and quick overview of evolutionary theories of the origins of early life at the microscopic levels and the view of how organic substances can come from inorganic substances.
©2014 Thomas Hodge (P)2015 Thomas Hodge
Biogeography
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Biogeography is the study of geographic variation in all characteristics of life - ranging from genetic, morphological, and behavioral variation among regional populations of a species, to geographic trends in diversity of entire communities across our planet's surface. From the ancient hunters and gatherers to the earliest naturalists, Charles Darwin, Alfred Russel Wallace, and scientists today, the search for patterns in life has provided insights that proved invaluable for understanding the natural world. And many, if not most, of the compelling kaleidoscope of patterns in biological diversity make little sense unless placed in an explicit geographic context. The Very Short Introduction audiobook explains the historical development of the field of biogeography, its fundamental tenets, principles, and tools, and the invaluable insights it provides for understanding the diversity of life in the natural world. As Mark Lomolino shows, key questions such as where species occur, how they vary from place to place, where their ancestors occurred, and how they spread across the globe, are essential for us to develop effective strategies for conserving the great menagerie of life across our planet.
©2020 Mark V. Lomolino (P)2020 Tantor
Belles histoires d'un sale virus
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La pétrifiante pandémie a fait des milliers de victimes dans le monde entier. Elle restera gravée dans nos mémoires comme un tournant de l'Histoire. Mais, pendant que le Coronavirus bouleversait la planète, d'autres virus, ceux de la solidarité, de la générosité et de la créativité en ont profité pour se propager simultanément. Pendant cette douloureuse épreuve, d'innombrables gestes de fraternité, d'humanité et de bonté ont réussi à irradier nos cœurs en peine en nous apportant du secours tendre, doux, souriant. Ce sont précisément ces belles initiatives, qui ont mis du baume au cœur, qu'Alain Stanké nous présente ici pour nous prouver que rien n'est jamais perdu, que dans les pires moments de la vie l'espoir demeure présent et que les petits bonheurs - qui finissent par devenir grands - sont toujours possibles. Un regard positif sur la nature humaine à laquelle le covid n'aura pas réussi à faire perdre sa créativité ni son sens de l'humour.
©2020 Alexandre Stanké (P)2020 Éditions Alexandre Stanké
The View From Lazy Point
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An exhilarating journey of natural renewal through a year with MacArthur fellow Carl Safina.Beginning in his kayak in his home waters of eastern Long Island, Carl Safina's The View from Lazy Point takes us through the four seasons to the four points of the compass, from the high Arctic south to Antarctica, across the warm belly of the tropics from the Caribbean to the west Pacific, then home again. We meet Eskimos whose way of life is melting away, explore a secret global seed vault hidden above the Arctic Circle, investigate dilemmas facing foraging bears and breeding penguins, and sail to formerly devastated reefs that are resurrecting as fish graze the corals algae-free."Each time science tightens a coil in the slack of our understanding," Safina writes, "it elaborates its fundamental discovery: connection."He shows how problems of the environment drive very real matters of human justice, well-being, and our prospects for peace.In Safina's hands, nature's continuous renewal points toward our future. His lively stories grant new insights into how our world is changing, and what our response ought to be.
©2011 Carl Safina (P)2014 Audible, Inc.
God's Equation
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Are we on the verge of solving the riddle of creation using Einstein's "greatest blunder"? In a work that is at once lucid, exhilarating and profound, renowned mathematician Dr. Amir Aczel, critically acclaimed author of Fermat's Last Theorem, takes us into the heart of science's greatest mystery. In January 1998, astronomers found evidence that the cosmos is expanding at an ever-increasing rate. The way we perceive the universe was changed forever. The most compelling theory cosmologists could find to explain this phenomenon was Einstein's cosmological constant, a theory he conceived - and rejected - over 80 years ago. Drawing on newly discovered letters of Einstein - many translated here for the first time - years of research, and interviews with prominent mathematicians, cosmologists, physicists, and astronomers, Aczel takes us on a fascinating journey into "the strange geometry of space-time," and into the mind of a genius. Here the unthinkable becomes real: an infinite, ever-expanding, ever-accelerating universe whose only absolute is the speed of light. Awesome in scope, thrilling in detail, God's Equation is storytelling at its finest.
©1999 Amir D. Aczel (P)2000 Random House, Inc.
Rope Hypothesis and Thread Theory
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Rope Hypothesis and Thread Theory is based on Bill Gaede's Rope Hypothesis. We apply the rope model to questions such as, what is gravity, light, electricity, and magnetism? What is thermodynamics? What is the difference between light and sound? What is plasma? How do batteries, antennas, and cathode ray tubes work? What is the difference between fundamental and composite objects? Does size scale make a difference when it comes to motion, friction, bending, stretching, and tension? What is the difference between electrostatics and gravitation? What is atomic bonding? What are reflection, refraction, and diffraction?
©2017 Jeffrey L. Hancock (P)2018 Jeffrey L. Hancock
The First Space Race: Launching the World's First Satellites
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The First Space Race reveals the inside story of an epic adventure with world-altering stakes. From 1955 to 1958, American and Soviet engineers battled to capture the world's imagination by successfully launching the world's first satellite. The race to orbit featured two American teams led by rival services - the US Army and the Navy - and a Soviet effort so secret that few even knew it existed. This race ushered in the Space Age with a saga of science, politics, technology, engineering, and human dreams. Moved by patriotism, inquisitiveness, and pride, people on both sides of the Iron Curtain put forth heroic efforts to make that first satellite possible. Some aspects of this story, like the US Navy's NOTSNIK satellite project, are almost unknown. Even some details of well-known programs, such as the appearance of America's pioneering Explorer 1 satellite and the contributions made by its rival, Project Vanguard, are generally misremembered. In this book, authors Matt Bille and Erika Lishock tell the whole story of the first space race. They trace the tale from the origins of spaceflight theory and through the military and political events that engendered the all-out efforts needed to turn dreams into reality and thus shape the modern world. The book is published by Texas A&M University Press.
©2004 Matt Bille and Erika Lishock (P)2016 Redwood Audiobooks
Theories of the Universe
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The theoretical physicist shares his thoughts on the nature of space and time in this anthology of selections from Princeton University Press. Along with eminent colleagues, Hawking extends theoretical frontiers by speculating on the big questions of modern cosmology.
©2009 Stephen Hawking (P)2009 HighBridge