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What is an untouchable number? Does the Earth have only one moon? Is it possible to go fasten as light in the real world? Who is HeLa? If you want to know the answers to these questions, and many more, this book is what you need. If you are a science lover (or a super nerd!) you will find unexpected facts about Maths, Physics, Astronomy, Earth and Life Sciences. Take a look into science as you’ve never done before: discover all the paradoxical, unusal and surprising scientific events collected into simple and easy readable chapters.

Maths
Goldbach’s Conjecture
The names of the numbers
Variations on Pythagorean theorem
Is a jig equal to one thousand mega?
Banach-Tarski Paradox
The tricks of interpolation
Peano’s curve
Physics
Fasten than light
Colours’ perception
Journey over the center of the Earth
Space Gravity
Touch relativity with you own hand
Help me! My wife is radioactive
Nuclear energy
The distance of the stars
Astronomy
Moon
Rolling planets
Jupiter
Stars-tremor
Exporting Life
Meteorites
One planet, two suns
Earth science
Volcanos of Hawaii
The mineral bridgmanite
A natural nuclear reactor
The lunar landscape of Antarctica
Kanamori: who were you?
Tide of lakes
Life science
Creatures of Darkness
Flores Hobbit
The secret of Medusa (or jellyfish)
Penguin-saurs
New names for new species
Why does God love coleopteras?
Superorganisms
Biomedicine
Virus vs. bacteria
1953: annus mirabilis
The story of Henrietta Lacks
Human Genome Project
Measurement scales

Paolo Gangemi, PhD, studied Mathematics and works as a scientific journalist. He has collaborated with paper and online newspapers and magazines, and he published Maths à la carte 2 (Sironi, 2007 - published in France by Editions First) and Roma matematica (Robin, 2010, as a coauthor). His fields of interest are: languages, literature, music, art, and geography.