Following in the footsteps of passionate hobbyists, ground-breaking scientists and intrepid adventurers, Joshua Howgego takes a rollicking ride through the world of meteorite hunting.

Uploaded June 2025

The Forgotten Genius of Physics, a Work on Marian Smoluchowski aims to introduce the outstanding physicist and philosopher to a wider circle of readers. His research formed the basis of a new branch of mathematics - statistical physics. He is considered the creator of the discipline dealing with the application of probability theory in research in physics.

Uploaded June 2025

Impressive events of magnetic energy release, such as solar and stellar flares and coronal mass ejections, take place in the atmospheric layers above a star's photosphere. These magnetic-activity events are closely related to the dynamics of subsurface convection zones inside the star.

Uploaded June 2025

The Search for Life explores the possibility of other life in the Universe, from the prospect of ancient bacteria locked away in dried up lakebeds on Mars to the likelihood of contacting an interstellar civilisation on the far side of the galaxy.

Uploaded June 2025

The early years of the nineteenth century saw an intriguing yet little-known scientific advance catapult a shy young Quaker to the dizzy heights of fame. The Invention of Clouds tells the extraordinary story of an amateur meteorologist, Luke Howard, and his groundbreaking work to define what had hitherto been random and unknowable structures--clouds.

Uploaded March 2025

Volume 1 presents important new material on the young Einstein. Over half the documents made available here were discovered by the editors, including a significant group of over fifty letters that Einstein exchanged with Mileva Maric, his fellow student and future wife. These letters, together with other previously unpublished documents, provide an entirely new view of Einstein's youth.

Uploaded March 2025

"Statistical Mechanics of Mean-Field Disordered Systems: A Hamilton-Jacobi Approach" by Tomas Dominguez and Jean-Christophe Mourrat presents new mathematical techniques for studying mean-field systems with disordered interactions, focusing on high-dimensional statistical inference and spin glasses, aiming to determine free energy using a Hamilton-Jacobi equation approach.

Uploaded March 2025

The James Webb Space Telescope is transforming the universe right before our eyes—and here, for the first time, is the inside account of how the mission originated, how it performs its miracles of science, and what its revolutionary images are revealing. Pillars of Creation tells the story of one of the greatest scientific achievements in the history of civilization, a $10 billion instrument with a staggeringly ambitious goal: unlocking the secrets of the cosmos.

Uploaded March 2025

IAU Symposium 361 brought together observational and theoretical astrophysicists to discuss all aspects of massive stars: their formation, evolution, demise as supernovae and GRBs, and gravitational waves from mergers of stellar-remnant neutron stars and black holes. The special focus was on massive stars in the early Universe, how they compare with massive stars in our Galaxy and with low-metallicity galaxies in the local Universe, anticipating new results from HST's ULLYSES and JWST.

Uploaded March 2025

The first book to combine exquisite cartographical charts of the Moon with a thorough exploration of the Moon's role in popular culture, science, and myth.

Uploaded March 2025