SciencePhiles

When there's news in the Middle East or Washington, DC, a little history can help you understand. But when the story is enriched uranium or birds with a deadly flu, you need to know some science, too.

Don't worry. We have the scientific knowledge you need to make sense of today's top news.

Meet the stem cells and steroids in your own body. Look a horrible hurricane like Katrina in the eye. Decide for yourself if Pluto's a planet.

Traveling from tiny viruses trying to steal your cells to a hundred billion galaxies out beyond the Milky Way, the KnowledgeNews SciencePhiles ebook will rocket you through the science you need to understand 21st-century news.

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Oh, The Humanity!
Some Stem Cell Science
Cloning 101
Human Evolution, Step by Step
Inside Your Brain
Inside an Evil Brain
'Roid Rage

Nature's Nastiest Diseases
How Viruses Steal Your Cells
Virus or Bacteria?
Smallpox, Big Success
An AIDS Appraisal
What Is Cancer, Really?
The Deadliest Flu Ever
A Bout with Bird Flu

Nature's Nastiest Disasters
Hurricanes vs. Tornadoes vs. You
What Makes a Hurricane?
What Makes a Tornado?
What Makes the Earth Quake?
Top 5 Ways Volcanoes Kill
The Burning Issue of Wildfires

The Final Frontier
Where Does Space Start?
How Fast Is a Space Station?
Space Shuttle Re-entry
Nine Planets? More or Less
Journey to the Center of the Sun
The Hot Life and Violent Death of a Big Star
10,000 Galaxies

Weapons of Mass Destruction
War Tech, From the Bow to "The Bomb"
Nuclear Weapons, Nuclear War
Chemical Weapons, Chemical War
The Recipe for Enriched Uranium

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