How Science Works

Science is not a collection of facts — it is a method: a set of practices for testing ideas against reality and revising those ideas when the evidence demands it. DK’s How Science Works presents both the method and the ideas it has produced — covering the complete range of the natural sciences from physics and chemistry through biology, earth science, and cosmology, with the visual clarity and conceptual depth that makes DK’s science reference series the most trusted available.

Each concept is explained with diagrams and visual examples that make abstract ideas immediately comprehensible. Historical context — the experiments, the discoveries, the paradigm shifts — grounds every scientific principle in the human story of its discovery.

An essential introduction to the scientific understanding of the natural world — the ideal reference for students and the perfect reading for anyone curious about how the universe actually works. Published by DK.