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In this audiobook, astrophysicist Janna Levin blends memoir and visionary science to provide a groundbreaking personal account of her life and ideas.

From the acclaimed author of Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space--an authoritative and accessible guide to the most alluring and challenging phenomena of contemporary science. Through her writing, astrophysicist Janna Levin has focused on making the science she studies not just...

The authoritative story of the headline-making discovery of gravitational waves—by an eminent theoretical astrophysicist and award-winning writer. From the author of How the Universe Got Its Spots and A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines, the epic story of the scientific campaign to record the...

“The Joy of Why” is a Quanta Magazine podcast about curiosity and the pursuit of knowledge. The mathematician and author Steven Strogatz and the cosmologist and author Janna Levin take turns interviewing leading researchers about the great scientific and mathematical questions of our time. New episodes are released every other Wednesday.Quanta Magazine is a Pulitzer Prize–winning, editorially independent online publication launched and supported by the Simons Foundation to illuminate big ideas in science and math through public service journalism. Quanta’s reporters and editors focus ...

En 1916, Einstein predijo la existencia de ondas gravitacionales, su máxima prioridad después de proponer su teoría del espacio-tiempo curvo. Un siglo después, estamos grabando los primeros sonidos del espacio, evidencia de la existencia de las ondas causadas por la colisión de dos agujeros negros. Es la banda sonora que acompaña a la película muda de la astronomía. Janna Levin relata la ambición experimental que comenzó como un divertido experimento mental y se convirtió en objeto de obsesión para los arquitectos originales de la idea: Rai Weiss, Kip Thorne y Ron Drever.

In the first book of the Jannah Jewels Adventure Series, Hidayah, Iman, Jaide, and Sara, time-travel to Timbuktu, Mali, in the 13th century! On their quest for the first artifact, a missing manuscript, the Jewels meet the Golden King Mansa Musa and learn all about the world traveller Ibn Battuta. Just as the Jewels are about to complete their mission, they meet their arch nemesis, Jaffar! Will the Jannah Jewels find the missing manuscript before time runs out? Will they find the secret written on a scroll hidden in a box inside the Golden Clock?

Stai viaggiando nel cosmo con la tua astronave. All’improvviso ti trovi di fronte a una totale assenza di luce: un buio su sfondo nero circondato da stelle, una misteriosa oscurità in apparenza priva di massa che ti attrae, per sfuggire alla quale devi aumentare gradualmente la potenza dei retrorazzi. Non devi oltrepassare il punto di non ritorno, quello dopo il quale, per salvarti, dovresti spingere i motori fino a superare i 300 000 chilometri al secondo della velocità della luce.

March Lawson is an orphan who, for the past eight years, has struggled to raise her siblings on a meager allowance. Most women March's age would be picking out ball gowns for the upcoming season. But March's focus is not on finding a husband. First, she must devote her energies to just one man: the coldhearted skinflint who refuses to release her inheritance. Michael Cavensham, the Marquess of McCalpin, is not a heartless man. When he learns that Miss Lawson has been forging his name to procure funds, he can't bring himself to have her arrested.

The mathematician and author Steven Strogatz and the astrophysicist and author Janna Levin interview leading researchers about the great scientific and mathematical questions of our time.

The acclaimed author of Einstein’s Dreams tackles "big questions like the origin of the universe and the nature of consciousness ... in an entertaining and easily digestible way” (Wall Street Journal) with a collection of meditative essays on the possibilities—and impossibilities—of...

In Book 11 of the Jannah Jewels Adventure series, they travel back in time and marvel at the wonders of Ancient Egypt in the 14th century. In this book, the Jannah Jewels marvel at the pyramids, get lost in the desert, and find out the truth about the Peaceful Archer and the four Masters in the book series, including a surprising secret about the Sensei!