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Author
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Are we alone in the universe? It is a captivating question, but one that historically eluded proper scientific investigation. The new discipline of astrobiology changes the game, introducing rigor to the quest for extraterrestrial life. Life in the Cosmos surveys the field, showing how cutting-edge research is closing in on the answers "out there.""--
Publisher
A&E Television Networks
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Travel with a visionary new science on a search for life in space, combining the disciplines of atronomy, biology and geology; Explore a bizarre array of technologies proposed by scientists in the hope of traveling faster through space, from spacecraft sporting sails to propulsion engines powered by anti-matter; Experts explain the latest developments in the ultimate space mission - to establish a space colony on Mars; When mankind eventually leaves...
Author
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
[1994]
Language
English
Description
Discusses the various ways writers, artists, and film-makers have depicted extraterrestrials, recounts efforts to detect life on the other planets of the solar system, and describes the different kinds of sense organs extraterrestrials might have and what beings from different types of environments might be like.
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"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 wheels! Or maybe it doesn't. In The Equations of Life, biologist Charles Cockell makes the surprising argument that the Universe constrains life, making its evolutionary outcomes...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"From a noted Cambridge zoologist, a wildly fun and scientifically sound exploration of what alien life must be like, using universal laws that govern life on Earth and in space. Scientists are confident that life exists elsewhere in the universe. Yet rather than taking a realistic approach to what aliens might be like, we imagine that life on other planets is the stuff of science fiction. The time has come to abandon our fantasies of space invaders...
