A Quantum Life: My Unlikely Journey from the Street to the Stars, by Hakeem Oluseyi and Joshua Horwitz Ballantine Books hide caption

Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution, by Carlo Rovelli Riverhead hide caption

The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet, John Green Dutton hide caption

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Wild Minds: The Artists and Rivalries That Inspired the Golden Age of Animation, by Reid Mitenbuler Atlantic Monthly Press hide caption

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Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime, Sean Carroll NPR hide caption

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The Apollo 11 mission celebrates 50 years this month. Brian Eno's score for 1983's For All Mankind documentary — released as Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks — has been reissued with brand new music. NASA/Corbis via Getty Images hide caption

The U.S. flag stands alone on the surface of the moon. NASA/Getty Images hide caption

Physicist Albert Einstein. Bettmann Archive hide caption

German ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst took this image of the Earth reflecting light from the sun while aboard the International Space Station July 17, 2014. Alexander Gerst/ESA/Getty Images hide caption

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Astronauts aboard the International Space Station took this image of southern Scandinavia, showing the northern lights aurora, just before midnight under a full moon on April 3, 2015. NASA hide caption

Artist's rendering of the first planet outside of our solar system to be imaged orbiting a brown dwarf star, called the 2M1207 system. ESO hide caption

An image from Clifford Johnson's The Dialogues: Conversations about the Nature of the Universe. Courtesy of Clifford Johnson hide caption

The link between science and superheroes is evident in Marvel Studios' Black Panther. Science is why T'Challa's nation, Wakanda, is globally preeminent. Marvel Studios 2018 hide caption

Rachel Brosnahan wins the award for best actress in a comedy series for "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel" at the 23rd annual Critics' Choice Awards at the Barker Hangar on Jan. 11 in Santa Monica, Calif. Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP hide caption

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