Weird Life The Search for Life That Is Very, Very Different from Our Own

Name: Weird Life The Search for Life That Is Very, Very Different from Our Own
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ISBN: 9780393348262

ISBN-10: 0393348261

ISBN-13: 9780393348262

Edition: 2014

Authors: David Toomey

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In the 1980s and 1990s, in places where no one thought it possible, scientists found organisms they called extremophiles: lovers of extremes. There were bacteria in volcanic hydrothermal vents on the ocean floor, single-celled algae in Antarctic ice floes, and fungi in the cooling pools of nuclear reactors. But might there be life stranger than the most extreme extremophile? Might there be, somewhere, another kind of life entirely? In fact, scientists have hypothesized life that uses ammonia instead of water, life based not in carbon but in silicon, life driven by nuclear chemistry, and life whose very atoms are unlike those in life we know. In recent years some scientists have begun to…

Book details

List price: $15.95
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 2/3/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 330
Size: 0.55" wide x 0.82" long x 0.08" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English

David Toomey is a visiting assistant professor of English at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, teaching technical writing and creative nonfiction.