Your July Reading List

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Your Summer Reading List The days are longer, the sun is stronger and there’s more time to sit back and relax with a good book (or magazine!). This July, dig into some of our fascinating ebooks. Or subscribe to Scientific American and keep up with the science that’s shaping the world.

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Music & the Brain When you hear a favorite song do you smile involuntarily? Tap your feet? Music’s strange power over us dates more than 30,000 years ago, and we’re still trying to explain its influence. In this eBook, we examine the latest imaging studies and explore connections between music and learning language and math, fostering social connections, treating brain disorders and more.

The Science of Diet and Exercise For decades, experts reduced weight loss advice to “burn more calories than you consume,” but evidence now shows that this equation is incomplete. In this eBook we’ve gathered the most recent research starting to refute conventional wisdom, revealing a metabolic process more complicated than initially thought and opening doors for new approaches.

Mysteries of Life in the Universe How did life begin on Earth? Does life exist elsewhere? In this eBook, we examine these captivating questions and present several theories on the origin of life, some of its extreme and surprising forms and the ongoing search for signs – or sentience – on distant worlds.

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