The Life of Super-Earths: How the Hunt for Alien Worlds and Artificial Cells Will Revolutionize Life on Our Planet
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Purchased from the Aurora Hills Branch Library's sale shelf.
Description:
In the past year, we have witnessed unprecedented breakthroughs in the seemingly unrelated fields of synthetic biology and exoplanetary astronomy. Just recently, arsenic-based bacteria was discovered in a California lake, both puzzling and electrifying the scientific world. In The Life of Super-Earths, expert astronomer Dimitar Sasselov aims to highlight these groundbreaking findings and explain how what we learn in the laboratory informs our investigation of the universe, and vice versa.
The discovery of a New Earth, or other world, may be in our future. But a truly "alien" life form is more likely to emerge from our planet’s natural environment or in a petri dish at a research lab. We may cross a milestone into the era of synthetic biology under the microscope. These breakthroughs will shed new light on our place in the universe and answer the age-old question: Are we alone in the universe?
The Life of Super-Earths offers nothing short of a revolution in our understanding of life and its place in the cosmos.
Description:
In the past year, we have witnessed unprecedented breakthroughs in the seemingly unrelated fields of synthetic biology and exoplanetary astronomy. Just recently, arsenic-based bacteria was discovered in a California lake, both puzzling and electrifying the scientific world. In The Life of Super-Earths, expert astronomer Dimitar Sasselov aims to highlight these groundbreaking findings and explain how what we learn in the laboratory informs our investigation of the universe, and vice versa.
The discovery of a New Earth, or other world, may be in our future. But a truly "alien" life form is more likely to emerge from our planet’s natural environment or in a petri dish at a research lab. We may cross a milestone into the era of synthetic biology under the microscope. These breakthroughs will shed new light on our place in the universe and answer the age-old question: Are we alone in the universe?
The Life of Super-Earths offers nothing short of a revolution in our understanding of life and its place in the cosmos.
Journal Entry 2 by 
Spatial
at Science & Technology Bookbox, A Bookbox -- Controlled Releases on Friday, June 21, 2019
Spatial at Science & Technology Bookbox, A Bookbox -- Controlled Releases on Friday, June 21, 2019
Released 4 yrs ago (6/21/2019 UTC) at Science & Technology Bookbox, A Bookbox -- Controlled Releases
CONTROLLED RELEASE NOTES:
One of the starting books for the Science & Technology Bookbox!
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This book returned unclaimed with the Science & Technology Bookbox.
Any books I do not keep to read will continue their journey via another BCer, LFL, or distributed at a book festival.
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Journal Entry 4 by Spatial at Little Free Library #129747 in Falls Church, Virginia USA on Thursday, November 11, 2021
Spatial at Little Free Library #129747 in Falls Church, Virginia USA on Thursday, November 11, 2021
Released 2 yrs ago (11/11/2021 UTC) at Little Free Library #129747 in Falls Church, Virginia USA
WILD RELEASE NOTES:
Left a few books at this nice LFL on the corner and picked up a few books. Then found a LARGE LFL not far from this one that didn’t show up on the LFL map. The other one is on the corner of Carolyn Dr. & Cresswell Dr. LFL #31630.
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