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The study of phenomena that can be touched, handled, and manipulated directly—the sciences of the material world. Tangible sciences include classical engineering (bridges you can walk on), materials science (metals you can hold), and most of biology as applied to things you can pick up (rocks, plants, dead things). These sciences are satisfying because you can feel your results—a stronger beam, a purer crystal, a heavier rock. They're also increasingly supplemented by intangible sciences, which study things you can't touch but can still affect you. Tangible sciences are what we evolved to understand; intangible sciences are what we built to go beyond our evolutionary limits.
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