"Any reader of science fiction or viewer of Star Trek will be awake to the dream that there may be life elsewhere in our universe that isn't like life here on Earth. Maybe, like E.T., it has new letters in its genetic alphabet! Maybe it's made of silicon! Maybe it gets around on…
"Any reader of science fiction or viewer of Star Trek will be awake to the dream that there may be life elsewhere in our universe that isn't like life here on Earth. Maybe, like E.T., it has new letters in its genetic alphabet! Maybe it's made of silicon! Maybe it gets around on…
"Why do flocks of geese fly in graceful echelons? Why do animals have legs and not wheels? Why do burrowing moles look the same the world over? In [this book], biologist Charles S. Cockell argues that the laws of physics narrowly constrain how life can evolve. Despite the astoun…
"Taxi drivers love to talk, and when astrobiologist Charles Cockell is their passenger, they love to talk about aliens. This humorous, insightful collection gathers essays inspired by conversations with cabbies, ranging over the possible nature of alien societies, the inevitabil…
Astrobiology is an interdisciplinary field that asks profound scientific questions. How did life originate on the Earth? How has life persisted on the Earth for over three billion years? Is there life elsewhere in the Universe? What is the future of life on Earth? Astrobiology: …
by Alain, Karine, Alawi, Mashal, Amend, Jan, Biddle, Jennifer, Borgomano, Jean, Cockell, Charles, Cragg, Barry, DiPrimio, Rolando, Edgcomb, Virginia, Inagaki, Fumio, Ito, Motoo, Jungbluth, Sean, LaRowe, Douglas, Lever, Mark, Lloyd, Karen G., Morono, Yuki, Oger, Philippe, Ollivier, Bernard, Orsi, William, Parkes, R. John, PEDERSEN, KARSTEN, Rappe, Michael, Roussel, Erwan, RøY, Hans, Sass, Henrik, Teske, Andreas P., Toffin, Laurent, Webster, Gordon, Weightman, Andrew
fromLife in extreme environments
by Alain, Karine, Alawi, Mashal, Amend, Jan, Biddle, Jennifer, Borgomano, Jean, Cockell, Charles, Cragg, Barry, DiPrimio, Rolando, Edgcomb, Virginia, Inagaki, Fumio, Ito, Motoo, Jungbluth, Sean, LaRowe, Douglas, Lever, Mark, Lloyd, Karen G., Morono, Yuki, Oger, Philippe, Ollivier, Bernard, Orsi, William, Parkes, R. John, PEDERSEN, KARSTEN, Rappe, Michael, Roussel, Erwan, RøY, Hans, Sass, Henrik, Teske, Andreas P., Toffin, Laurent, Webster, Gordon, Weightman, Andrew
fromLife in extreme environments
This book brings together a variety of topics, covering the broad range of issues that are associated with deep biosphere exploration. In order to explain our observations from deep subsurface ecosystems it is necessary to develop interdisciplinary approaches, ranging from micro…
