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

byRoberta Kwok

Science journalist Roberta Kwok follows researchers into the uncertain middle of discovery, where carefully designed plans encounter broken equipment, strange results, dangerous terrain, and unanswered questions. Field notes from different disciplines reveal how curiosity survives boredom, failure, doubt, and long stretches without obvious progress. The book focuses less on celebrated breakthroughs than on the habits and improvisations that make them possible. Kwok presents science as a human adventure in which collaboration, patience, and openness to surprise matter as much as expertise, and wrong turns can become paths toward genuinely new knowledge.

Publisher

Sourcebooks

Publication date

2026-07-21

Format

Hardcover

Pages

368

ISBN

9781728275970