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    • The Race to Build - and Steal - the World's Most Dangerous Weapon
    • By: Steve Sheinkin
    • Narrated by: Roy Roy Samuelson
    • Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 01-08-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 624 ratings
    • In December of 1938, a chemist in a German laboratory made a shocking discovery: When placed next to radioactive material, a Uranium atom split in two. That simple discovery launched a scientific race that spanned three continents....

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    • By: Sam Kean
    • Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
    • Length: 5 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 04-04-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 51 ratings
    • A young listeners edition of the New York Times best seller The Disappearing Spoon, chronicling the extraordinary stories behind one of the greatest scientific tools in existence: the periodic table....

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    • By: Jess Brallier
    • Narrated by: Kevin Pariseau
    • Series: Who-? by Who HQ
    • Length: 1 hr and 2 mins
    • Release date: 03-26-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 61 ratings
    • Everyone has heard of Albert Einstein - but what exactly did he do? How much do kids really know about Albert Einstein besides the funny hair and genius label? For instance, do they know that he was expelled from school as a kid? Finally, here's the story of Albert Einstein's life....

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    • Ordinary People Change the World Series
    • By: Brad Meltzer
    • Narrated by: Marc Thompson, Various
    • Series: Ordinary People Change the World Series
    • Length: 13 mins
    • Release date: 02-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Even when he was a kid, Albert Einstein did things his own way. He thought in pictures instead of words, and his special way of thinking helped him understand big ideas like the structure of music and why a compass always points north....

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    • A Story of Albert Einstein
    • By: Jennifer Berne
    • Narrated by: Rich Orlow
    • Length: 14 mins
    • Release date: 12-18-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • A boy rides a bicycle down a dusty road. But in his mind, he envisions himself traveling at a speed beyond imagining, on a beam of light....

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    • Medicine's Battles with History's Deadliest Diseases
    • By: Lindsey Fitzharris, Adrian Teal
    • Narrated by: Hunter Johns
    • Length: 2 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 10-10-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • Smallpox! Rabies! Black Death! Throughout history humankind has been plagued by...well, by plagues. The symptoms of these diseases were gruesome—but the remedies were even worse....

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    • Poo Through the Ages
    • By: Suzie Edge, Luke Newell - illustrator
    • Narrated by: Suzie Edge
    • Length: 2 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 04-11-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • Discover loads about the loo, piles about poo and the funniest and foulest facts from the smelliest corners of history, from TikTok historian, Dr Suzie Edge - perfect for fans of Horrible Histories and Adam Kay....

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    • Plagues that Changed History
    • By: Bryn Barnard
    • Narrated by: Rick Adamson
    • Length: 2 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 01-19-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Filled with fascinating, often gory details about disease and history, Outbreak! is a wonderful combination of science and history....

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    • A Scientist's Quest to Name Every Living Thing
    • By: Karen Magnuson Beil
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
    • Length: 5 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 10-01-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • The globetrotting naturalists of the 18th century were the geeks of their day: innovators and explorers who lived at the intersection of science and commerce. Foremost among them was Carl Linnaeus, a radical thinker who revolutionized biology....

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    • Ken Jennings' Junior Genius Guides
    • By: Ken Jennings
    • Narrated by: Ken Jennings
    • Series: Ken Jennings' Junior Genius Guides
    • Length: 2 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 09-12-23
    • Language: English
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    • Let your inner astronaut explore outer space with this interactive trivia book from Jeopardy! champ and New York Times bestselling author Ken Jennings....

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    • Michael Faraday's Candle
    • By: Darcy Pattison
    • Narrated by: Kevin M. Connolly
    • Length: 10 mins
    • Release date: 07-22-21
    • Language: English
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    • Solid wax is somehow changed into light and heat. But how? Travel back in time to December 28, 1848 in London, England to one of the most famous juvenile science Christmas lectures at the Royal Institution....

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    • A Celebration of Traditional North American Knowledge
    • By: Deidre Havrelock, Edward Kay
    • Narrated by: Erin Tripp
    • Length: 5 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 05-10-23
    • Language: English
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    • Celebrate Indigenous thinkers and inventions with this award-winning interactive nonfiction book—perfect for fans of Braiding Sweetgrass.

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    • By: Katherine White
    • Narrated by: Jay Snyder
    • Length: 1 hr and 14 mins
    • Release date: 02-02-09
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • Dmitri Mendeleyev gave science one of its most important discoveries when he published his periodic table of elements....

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    • By: Mark Kurlansky
    • Narrated by: Brett Barry
    • Length: 30 mins
    • Release date: 03-08-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • From the team that created the ALA Notable Book The Cod's Tale comes the fascinating history of salt, which has been the object of wars and revolutions and is vital for life....

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    • What Was?
    • By: Gail Herman, Who HQ
    • Narrated by: Suzanne Elise Freeman
    • Series: What-? by Who HQ
    • Length: 1 hr and 20 mins
    • Release date: 06-19-18
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • The Earth is definitely getting warmer. While the vast majority of scientists who study the environment agree that humans play a large part in climate change, there is a counterargument. Author Gail Herman presents both sides of the debate....

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    • How Irene Curie and Lise Meitner Revolutionized Science and Changed the World
    • By: Winifred Conkling
    • Narrated by: Andrea Gallo
    • Length: 6 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 01-05-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • The fascinating, little-known story of how two brilliant female physicists' groundbreaking discoveries led to the creation of the atomic bomb....

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    • By: Lori Alexander
    • Narrated by: Sam Devereaux
    • Length: 1 hr and 17 mins
    • Release date: 10-10-23
    • Language: English
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    • In 1841, a quiet, curious boy who stuttered when nervous committed to becoming a surgeon—a profession then more feared than respected....

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