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New science-themed movie The Current War :

I just saw an ad for this movie that opens next week. Looking forward to seeing it!

Directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Benedict Cumberbatch

Synopsis:

Three brilliant visionaries set off in a charged battle for the future in The Current War, the epic story of the cutthroat competition that literally lit up the modern world. Benedict Cumberbatch is Thomas Edison, the celebrity inventor on the verge of bringing electricity to Manhattan with his radical new DC technology. On t...

Summary:

Thirty years in the future, when AI is so advanced that humans live side by side with cognizant robots called Artificials, Kestrel Hathaway must come to terms not just with what machines know, but with what they believe.

Soon after experiencing a personal tragedy, Kestrel witnesses a terrorist attack and is drawn into a world of conspiracies and lies that she and Jordan, her Artificial, have to untangle. With a second, more brutal attack looming on the horizon, their best chan...

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Angels of Mercy ER charge nurse Nora Halloran has been living with a painful secret for three long years. But when a coworker is brutally assaulted and killed, she knows she can no longer remain silent.

Determined to unmask the murderer, Nora teams up with her friends— Lydia , an ER attending with a secret of her own; Gina, the once-cocky resident now struggling to strike a balance between her family and her job; and Amanda, a med student caught between her career and her cons...

Summary:

A medical student investigating the mysterious deaths of patients begins to experience the same deadly symptoms herself.

On rotation at Pittsburgh ’s Angels of Mercy Hospital and struggling to finish medical school, Amanda Mason can’t afford to make any mistakes—or to reveal a troubling secret. Mysterious symptoms that defy diagnosis have been affecting her performance, and as she struggles to keep control, the only person who seems to notice is the irritatingly observant and...

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New ER doctor Lydia Fiore finds herself losing the wrong patient—the Chief of Surgery’s son. To save her career, Lydia must discover the truth behind her patient’s death, even if it leads her into unfamiliar—and risky—territory, finding new friends, new love, and new enemies who will stop at nothing to silence her.

Drawing from her own experiences as a pediatric ER doctor, New York Times bestselling author CJ Lyons reveals the secrets of an urban trauma center in a novel Lisa...

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With Pittsburgh snarled by a New Year’s Eve blizzard and Angels of Mercy Hospital cut off from the outside world, staff and patients are at the mercy of armed gunmen. Their target is Dr. Gina Freeman, who is holding vigil over her wounded fiancé, Detective Jerry Boyle.

Trapped inside with her are ER charge nurse Nora Halloran and fourth-year medical student Amanda Mason, on the last night of her ICU rotation—if not her life. Stranded outside the hospital walls is ER physician...

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In the middle of the South Pacific, a thousand feet below the surface of the water, a huge vessel is discovered resting on the ocean floor.

Rushed to the scene is a group of American scientists who descend together into the depths of the sea to investigate this astonishing discovery.

What they find defies their imaginations and mocks their attempts at logical explanation. It is a spaceship of phenomenal dimensions, apparently undamaged by its fall from the sky. And, most start...

Summary:

A molecular biologist is driven mad when he witnesses the murder of his wife and children by Irish Republican terrorists (ah, remember those pre-9/11 days?). He takes his revenge by engineering a plague that kills women. Like the plague, Herbert’s story travels the globe, following the attempts of governments to contain or cure the disease, and the unraveling of society that accompanies the death of the female half of the world’s population.

Publication Date: 1982

Category: s...

Summary:

The long-slumbering Chilean volcano Chaiten awakens. Sheila Kennedy, a scientist engaged in microbiology research on the mountain, has gone on a hunt for a convoy of tanker trucks she suspects are involved in illegal dumping, while her partner Ross Roundtree (who survived the Antarctic disaster in Dionne’s previous novel Melting Point) pokes around town for clues. Thus Sheila is on the caldera when it erupts. She is not alone. Dr. Max Heat, celebrity vulcanologist; Phillipe Du...

Summary:

A lawyer is perplexed and disturbed that his respected friend and client, Dr. Henry Jekyll, has prepared a will leaving his fortune to the repugnant Mr. Edward Hyde, a stranger with a violent temperament and deformed appearance.

Publication Date: 1886

Category: mystery; classic; science thriller novel

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I expect there is no need to worry about the spoiler for this plot....