From Coffee to Cosmos: Science in Everyday Life

This American edition offers quick, easy explanations of 120 everyday phenomena, making it essential for science students of all ages. A cup warms your hands. Steam rises and vanishes. A thought forms, lingers, then fades. Nothing about these moments seems remarkable. Yet within them, the universe is at work. In From Coffee to Cosmos, the ordinary becomes a place of discovery. Each short reflection begins with a simple experience and unfolds into something deeper: patterns, processes, and questions that link daily life to the wider fabric of reality. This is not a book of grand explanations but of careful noticing. A reminder that the familiar is not empty and that meaning does not arrive only in rare or dramatic forms. The extraordinary is already here. It has simply been waiting to be seen. Surendra Verma is a science writer and author based in Melbourne, Australia, since 1979. His numerous popular-science books have been published in Australia, the UK, and the US, with translations in 14 languages other than English.