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Mind-expanding science audiobooks

Unlock the secrets of the universe alongside brilliant scientists from a range of fields. These great audiobooks get you thinking.
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    Quanta and Fields

    The Biggest Ideas in the Universe

    by Sean Carroll ...
    Narrated by Sean Carroll ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 49 min

    Quanta and Fields, the second book of Sean Carroll’s already internationally acclaimed series The Biggest Ideas in the Universe, is an adventure into the bare stuff of reality.Sean Carroll is creating a profoundly new approach to sharing physics with a broad audience, one that goes beyond analogies to show how physicists really think. He cuts to the bare mathematical essence of our most profound ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

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    Liftoff

    Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX

    by Eric Berger ...
    Narrated by Rob Shapiro ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 3 min

    The dramatic inside story of the first four historic flights that launched SpaceX—and Elon Musk—from a shaky startup into the world's leading edge rocket company.In 2006, SpaceX—a brand-new venture with fewer than 200 employees—rolled its first, single-engine rocket onto a launch pad at Kwajalein Atoll. After a groundbreaking launch from the middle of the Pacific Ocean, the Falcon 1 rocket ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

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    The Planets: A Sunday Times Bestseller

    by Professor Brian Cox, Andrew Cohen ...
    Narrated by Samuel West ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 43 min

    ‘So staggering you go “whoa!” every few seconds’ Guardian‘Really impressive’ Eamonn Holmes, ITV This MorningA companion book to the critically acclaimed BBC series.The bestselling authors of Wonders of the Universe are back with another blockbuster, a groundbreaking exploration of our Solar System as it has never been seen before.Mercury, a lifeless victim of the Sun’s expanding power. Venus, once ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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    First Steps

    How Upright Walking Made Us Human

    by Jeremy DeSilva ...
    Narrated by Kaleo Griffith ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 17 min

    Blending history, science, and culture, a stunning and highly engaging evolutionary story exploring how walking on two legs allowed humans to become the planet’s dominant species.Humans are the only mammals to walk on two, rather than four legs—a locomotion known as bipedalism. We strive to be upstanding citizens, honor those who stand tall and proud, and take a stand against injustices. We follow ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

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    Bite

    An Incisive History of Teeth, from Hagfish to Humans

    by Bill Schutt ...
    Narrated by Charles Constant ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 46 min

    From three-inch fang blennies to thirty-foot prehistoric crocodiles, from gaboon vipers to Neanderthals, Bite is a fascinating journey through the natural, scientific, and cultural history of something right in front of—or in—our faces: teeth.In Bite, zoologist Bill Schutt makes a surprising case: it is teeth that are responsible for the long-term success of vertebrates. The appearance of teeth, ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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    The Code Breaker

    Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race

    by Walter Isaacson ...
    Narrated by Kathe Mazur ...

    Unabridged

    16 hours 4 min

    A 2022 Audie Award FinalistA Best Book of 2021 by Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Time, and The Washington PostThe bestselling author of Leonardo da Vinci and Steve Jobs returns with a “compelling” (The Washington Post) account of how Nobel Prize winner Jennifer Doudna and her colleagues launched a revolution that will allow us to cure diseases, fend off viruses, and have healthier babie... ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Lifespan

    Why We Age—and Why We Don't Have To

    by David A. Sinclair, PhD, Matthew D. LaPlante ...
    Narrated by David A. Sinclair, PhD ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 55 min

    Audio Bonus! Includes exclusive conversations with the authors!A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“Brilliant and enthralling.” —The Wall Street JournalA paradigm-shifting book from an acclaimed Harvard Medical School scientist and one of Time’s most influential people.It’s a seemingly undeniable truth that aging is inevitable. But what if everything we’ve been taught to bel... ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

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    Keep Sharp

    How to Build a Better Brain at Any Age

    by Sanjay Gupta, M.D. ...
    Narrated by Sanjay Gupta, M.D. ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours

    Keep your brain young, healthy, and sharp with this science-driven guide to protecting your mind from decline by neurosurgeon and CNN chief medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta.Throughout our life, we look for ways to keep our minds sharp and effortlessly productive. Now, globetrotting neurosurgeon Dr. Sanjay Gupta offers “the book all of us need, young and old” (Walter Isaacson, #1 New York ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

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    The Disordered Cosmos

    A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred

    by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein ...
    Narrated by Joniece Abbott-Pratt ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 56 min

    From a star theoretical physicist, a journey into the world of particle physics and the cosmos—and a call for a more liberatory practice of science.A Finalist for the 2022 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing AwardA Finalist for the 2021 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Science & TechnologyA Smithsonian Magazine Best Science Book of 2021A Symmetry Magazine Top 10 Physics Book of 2021An Entropy ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

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    Every Tool's a Hammer

    Life Is What You Make It

    by Adam Savage ...
    Narrated by Adam Savage ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 45 min

    **In this New York Times bestselling “imperative how-to for creativity” (Nick Offerman), Adam Savage—**star of Discovery Channel’s Mythbusters—shares his golden rules of creativity, from finding inspiration to following through and successfully making your idea a reality.Every Tool’s a Hammer is a chronicle of my life as a maker. It’s an exploration of making, but it’s also a permission slip of ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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    Cosmic Queries

    StarTalk’s Guide to Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We’re Going

    by Neil deGrasse Tyson, James Trefil, James Trefil ...
    Narrated by Neil deGrasse Tyson, Lauren Fortgang ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 18 min

    For science geeks, space and physics nerds, and all who want to understand their place in the universe, this enlightening new book from Neil deGrasse Tyson offers a unique take on the mysteries and curiosities of the cosmos, building on rich material from his beloved StarTalk podcast.In this illuminating audiobook, Tyson and coauthor James Trefil, a renowned physicist and science popularizer, take ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

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    Determined

    A Science of Life without Free Will

    by Robert M. Sapolsky ...
    Narrated by Kaleo Griffith ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 42 min

    **The instant New York Times bestseller“Excellent…Outstanding for its breadth of research, the liveliness of the writing, and the depth of humanity it conveys.” – Wall Street Journal**One of our great behavioral scientists, the bestselling author of Behave, plumbs the depths of the science and philosophy of decision-making to mount a devastating case against free will, an argument with profound ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

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    The End of Everything

    (Astrophysically Speaking)

    by Katie Mack ...
    Narrated by Katie Mack, Gabra Zackman ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 21 min

    A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK * AN NPR SCIENCE FRIDAY BOOK CLUB SELECTION* NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST, THE ECONOMIST, NEW SCIENTIST, PUBLISHERS WEEKLY,and THE GUARDIANFrom the cohost of the podcast The Universe with John Green and one of the most dynamic stars in astrophysics, an “engrossing, elegant” (The New York Times) look at five ways the universe could en... ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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    A Thousand Brains

    A New Theory of Intelligence

    by Jeff Hawkins ...
    Narrated by Richard Dawkins, Jamie Renell ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 40 min

    A bestselling author, neuroscientist, and computer engineer unveils a theory of intelligence that will revolutionize our understanding of the brain and the future of AI.For all of neuroscience's advances, we've made little progress on its biggest question: How do simple cells in the brain create intelligence?Jeff Hawkins and his team discovered that the brain uses maplike structures to build a ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Origin

    A Genetic History of the Americas

    by Jennifer Raff ...
    Narrated by Jennifer Raff, Tanis Parenteau, Yvonne Russo ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 12 min

    From celebrated anthropologist Jennifer Raff comes the untold story—and fascinating mystery—of how humans migrated to the Americas.ORIGIN is the story of who the first peoples in the Americas were, how and why they made the crossing, how they dispersed south, and how they lived based on a new and powerful kind of evidence: their complete genomes. ORIGIN provides an overview of these new histories ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

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    Ways of Being

    Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence

    by James Bridle ...
    Narrated by James Bridle ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 2 min

    "There's joy in self-described "satellite nerd" James Bridle's British-accented voice as he narrates this audiobook about consciousness and the search for planetary intelligence." - AudioFile Magazine**This audiobook is read by the author.Artist, technologist, and philosopher James Bridle’s Ways of Being is a brilliant, searching exploration of different kinds of intelligence—plant, animal, human, ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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    Fossil Men

    The Quest for the Oldest Skeleton and the Origins of Humankind

    by Kermit Pattison ...
    Narrated by Roger Wayne ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 21 min

    ""*A rip-roaring tale, *Fossil Men is one of those rare books that can be a prism through which to view the world, exposing the fabric of the Earth and illuminating the Tree of Life."" —New York Times bestselling author Peter Nichols**A behind-the-scenes account of the shocking discovery of the skeleton of “Ardi,” a human ancestor far older than Lucy - a find that shook the world of ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Out of My Skull

    The Psychology of Boredom

    by James Danckert, John D. Eastwood ...
    Narrated by Liam Gerrard ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 46 min

    We avoid boredom at all costs. It makes us feel restless and agitated. Desperate for something to do, we play games on our phones, retie our shoes, or even count ceiling tiles. And if we escape it this time, eventually it will strike again. But what if we listened to boredom instead of banishing it? Psychologists James Danckert and John Eastwood contend that boredom isn't bad for us. It's just ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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    A Brief History of Intelligence

    Evolution, AI, and the Five Breakthroughs That Made Our Brains

    by Max Bennett ...
    Narrated by George Newbern ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 17 min

    Equal parts Sapiens, Behave, and Superintelligence, but wholly original in scope, A Brief History of Intelligence offers a paradigm shift for how we understand neuroscience and AI. Artificial intelligence entrepreneur Max Bennett chronicles the five “breakthroughs” in the evolution of human intelligence and reveals what brains of the past can tell us about the AI of tomorrow.In the last decade, ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

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    Why We Remember

    Unlocking Memory's Power to Hold on to What Matters

    by Charan Ranganath ...
    Narrated by Charan Ranganath, Mark Deakins ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 18 min

    **NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER • Memory is far more than a record of the past. In this groundbreaking tour of the mind and brain, one of the world’s top memory researchers reveals the powerful role memory plays in nearly every aspect of our lives, from recalling faces and names, to learning, decision-making, trauma and healing."Why We Remember offers a radically new and ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    The Universe Speaks in Numbers

    How Modern Math Reveals Nature's Deepest Secrets

    by Graham Farmelo ...
    Narrated by Hugh Kermode ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 38 min

    How math helps us solve the universe's deepest mysteriesOne of the great insights of science is that the universe has an underlying order. The supreme goal of physicists is to understand this order through laws that describe the behavior of the most basic particles and the forces between them. For centuries, we have searched for these laws by studying the results of experiments.Since the 1970s, ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    The Future of Us

    The Science of What We'll Eat, Where We'll Live, and Who We'll Be

    by Jay Ingram ...
    Narrated by Tim H. Dixon ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 47 min

    A fascinating look at the cutting-edge science and technologies that are on the cusp of changing everything from where we’ll live, how we’ll look, and who we’ll be, by the popular science broadcaster and bestselling author Jay Ingram.Where will we live? How will we get around? What will we look like? These are just some of the questions bestselling author and popular science broadcaster Jay Ingram ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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    Wayfinding

    The Science and Mystery of How Humans Navigate the World

    by M. R. O'Connor ...
    Narrated by Teri Schnaubelt ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 30 min

    At once far flung and intimate, a fascinating look at how finding our way makes us human.In this compelling narrative, O'Connor seeks out neuroscientists, anthropologists and master navigators to understand how navigation ultimately gave us our humanity. Biologists have been trying to solve the mystery of how organisms have the ability to migrate and orient with such precision―especially since our ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

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    Planting the World: Joseph Banks and his Collectors: An Adventurous History of Botany

    by Jordan Goodman ...
    Narrated by Paul Hilliar ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 52 min

    ‘Based on meticulous research in original sources … Goodman illustrates vividly how adept [Banks] was … Shining a light on individuals whose achievements are relatively uncelebrated’Jenny Uglow, New York Review of BooksA bold new history of how botany and global plant collecting – centred at Kew Gardens and driven by Joseph Banks – transformed the earth.Botany was the darling and the powerhouse of ... Read more

    $31.99 USD