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Book Review: The Messy Business of Making Science Happen

In “Lost in Curiosity: Field Notes From Scientists’ Adventures Into the Unknown,” Roberta Kwok sets out to smash the stereotype of eureka moments as the main drivers of scientific knowledge, largely by taking us inside the everyday world of science and scientists, in all its painstaking monotony.

Book Review: The Messy Business of Making Science Happen

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‘Lid’ of asteroid dust smothered and burned the dinosaurs, say scientists

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