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Lost in Curiosity: Field Notes from Scientists' Adventures into the Unknown

By Roberta Kwok
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By Roberta Kwok
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What really happens during a scientific breakthrough? Roberta Kwok asks the questions that keep us up at night and highlights the researchers, lab workers and scientists who spend their days looking for answers.

The real story of science isn't a triumphant breakthrough. It's messy, mysterious, and deeply human.

In Lost in Curiosity, award-winning journalist Roberta Kwok pulls back the curtain on what scientific discovery actually looks like... Not a Eureka moment, but a fraught, often chaotic pursuit of truth.

Chronicling researchers' struggles and hopes in the field and lab, Kwok documents it all: fending off relentless snowfall on a remote Greenland glacier, desperately searching for an elusive fro...

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