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Artificial Intelligence - Modern Magic or Dangerous Future? by Yorick Wilks
$23.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Series: Hot Science Ser.
Artificial intelligence has long been a mainstay of science fiction and increasingly it feels as if AI is entering our everyday lives, with technology like Apple's Siri now prominent, and self-driving cars almost upon us. But what do we actually mean when we talk about 'AI'? Are the sentient machines o ...Show more
Dark Matter and Dark Energy by Brian Clegg
$23.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Series: Hot Science Ser.
All the matter and light we can see in the universe makes up a trivial 5per cent of everything. The rest is hidden. This could be the biggest puzzle that science has everfaced. Since the 1970s,astronomers have been aware that galaxies have far too little matter in them toaccount for the way they spin ar ...Show more
Rewilding - The Radical New Science of Ecological Recovery by Paul Jepson; Cain Blythe
$22.99 NZD
Category: Environment | Series: Hot Science Ser.
The ground-breaking science behind ambitious new schemes for restoring lost natural systems.
The Graphene Revolution - The Weird Science of the Ultra-Thin by Brian Clegg
$23.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Series: Hot Science Ser.
Welcome to the wonderful world of graphene, the thinnest substance known to science. In 2003, Russian physicists Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov found a way to produce graphene - the thinnest substance in the world - by using sticky tape to separate an atom-thick layer from a block of graphite. T ...Show more
The Science of Music: How Technology Has Shaped the Evolution of an Art Form by Andrew May
$25.00 NZD
Category: Music | Series: Hot Science Ser.
Music is shaped by the science of sound. How can music - an artform - have anything to do with science? Yet there are myriad ways in which the two are intertwined, from the basics of music theory and the design of instruments to hi-fi systems and how the brain processes music. Science writer Andrew May ...Show more
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