Weird Life : The Search for Life That Is Very, Very Different from Our Own Troy Chin Author: Philip J

Author: Philip J

In a neighbouring village

Lee is considered by many to be the greatest forensic scientist in the world

Henry Denton has spent years being periodically abducted by aliens

telling a story dreaming and bone-bright and out of focus in the rain

Weird Life : The Search for Life That Is Very, Very Different from Our Own Troy Chin Author: Philip JIn 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