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“Scientific Aims” is a category for books that explore the goals, motivations, and intended outcomes of scientific inquiry. These works articulate what science seeks to achieve—such as explanation, prediction, control, and understanding—and how methods, evidence, and ethics align with those aims. The category spans philosophy and history of science, science policy and R&D strategy, and field-specific roadmaps or “grand challenges,” as well as accessible narratives that explain science’s purpose to general readers. Titles may define research agendas, evaluate measures of progress, connect science to societal needs, and debate trade-offs and values that shape discovery. In short, it gathers books that clarify where science is heading and why.

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