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From the Big Bang to the Theory of Everything
via the Selfish Gene and GM crops, award-winning science
writer Robert Matthews unveils twenty-five of the most revolutionary
ideas in 21st century science. He describes the astonishing
insights they give into the workings of nature -- and the
human story behind their discovery. The result is an essential
guide to the cutting edge of science and what it reveals
about the universe and our place within it.
Published in association with BBC Focus
magazine, each chapter includes a brilliantly accessible
account of the key idea, together with a time-line, jargon-buster,
and "in a nutshell" summary.
Robert Matthews is Visiting Reader in
Science at Aston University, Birmingham. He has published
pioneering research in fields ranging from code-breaking
to the probability of coincidences, and won an Ig Nobel
Prize for his studies of Murphy's Law, including the reasons
why toast so often lands butter-side down. He is also an
award-winning journalist who writes on science issues for
many publications, including BBC Focus, The Sunday
Telegraph, The Financial Times and New Scientist.
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