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Today's fast-moving world of science will have far-reaching effects on all of our lives. "Trends in Science" is a series of of essential readings for anyone who wants to know more about how his or her future will be affected, as well, the series provides accessible and stimulating material for high school and college students, for researchers and librarians. All titles in the series provide: an introductory overview of the field in the last 10...

Learning To Love Your Inner Ecosystem. Every human body carries a secret cargo, a huge population of micro-organisms that lives in your mouth and nose, on your skin, in your guts. This is the human microbiome, and it has in the last few years become biologists' most thrilling research interest. Vastly outnumbering human cells, our invisible passengers are vital to life - they help us digest food, make essential nutrients, and combat disease. T...

A Quark for Mister Mark includes poems, old and new, whose subject is science - its discoveries, its processes - but also poems which look at the world with an inherently scientific gaze, whether before Copernicus or after Einstein.

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How is it possible that Earth's atmospheric temperature has remained perfectly suited to supporting life for billions of years? Why do oxygen levels in the atmosphere remain relatively stable when only a minuscule increase would cause everything on Earth to spontaneously combust? Why are the oceans salty, but not salty enough to make them uninhabitable? In the 1960s, an English scientist names James Lovelock formulated a groundbreaking and hig...