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The team behind the celebrated Nano: The Spectacular Science of the Very (Very) Small returns with another STEAM offering, melding curriculum science and inspiring, cutting-edge physics. When you feel too hot or too cold, it’s your brain’s job to send signals to your body to keep...
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The team behind the celebrated Nano: The Spectacular Science of the Very (Very) Small returns with another STEAM offering, melding curriculum science and inspiring, cutting-edge physics.
When you feel too hot or too cold, it’s your brain’s job to send signals to your body to keep your temperature just right—by sweating (cooling you off) or shivering (moving your body to warm you up). But what makes things hot or cold? And what is temperature, exactly?
Curl up in your climate-controlled corner and explore the extremes of heat and cold found on our planet and in outer space, while discovering what a difference just a single degree of temperature change can make. Then take in the mind-bending ways that temperature is being used and studied in STEAM industries today, from quantum computers that use superconductors at super-low temperatures to innovative research that takes a cue from the sun as it looks at fusion ignition as a potential source of energy around the world.
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Book Details
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ISBN: 9781536251852
Publisher: Candlewick Press,U.S.
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 02 February 2027
Country: United States
Imprint: Candlewick Press,U.S.
Contributors:
- Illustrated by Melissa Castrillón
Audience: Children
DIMENSIONS
Width: 217.0mm
Height: 294.0mm
Weight: 567g
Pages: 48
About the Author
Dr. Jess Wade is an award-winning physicist, activist, science communicator, and the author of Nano: The Spectacular Science of the Very (Very) Small and Light: The Extraordinary Energy That Illuminates Our World. By day she works in the incredible laboratories of Imperial College London, where she creates new materials to use in electronic devices. She spends her evenings trying to make science a more equitable and fair place, celebrating the phenomenal contributions of researchers who are all too often overlooked. Dr. Jess Wade lives in London.
Melissa Castrillón is the illustrator of Nano: The Spectacular Science of the Very (Very) Small by Dr. Jess Wade and Animazes: Extraordinary Animal Migrations by Katie Haworth. A British-Colombian author and illustrator with a master’s degree in children’s book illustration, Melissa Castrillón lives in Cambridge, England.
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