Alok Jha

Water is the most every day of substances. It pours from our taps and falls from the sky. We drink it, wash with it, and couldnt live without it. Yet, on closer examination it is also a very strange substance (it is one of only a very small number of molecules which expand when cooled). Look closer again and water reveals itself as a key to a scientific story on the biggest of canvases.Water is crucial to our survival - life depends on it - but it was also fundamental in the origins of life on Earth. The millions of gallons of water which make up our rivers, lakes and oceans, originated in outer space. How it arrived here and how those molecules of water were formed, is a story which takes us back to the beginning of the universe. Indeed, we know more about the depths of space than we do about the furthest reaches of the oceans.Water has also shaped the world we live in. Whether it is by gently carving the Grand Canyon over millennia, or in shaping how civilisations were built; we have settled our cities along rivers and coasts. Scientific studies show how we feel calmer and more relaxed when next to water. We holiday by the seas and lakes. Yet one day soon wars may be fought over access to water.The Water Book will change the way you look at water. After reading it you will be able to hold a glass of water up to the light and see within it a strange molecule that connects you to the origins of life, the birth (and death) of the universe, and to everyone who ever lived.

How to clone a sheep. How to build a brain. How to boil a planet. How to save the world. From the microscopic to the cosmic, this book takes you on a glorious tour of the known universe and beyond, encompassing alien worlds, bizarre life forms, quantum weirdness, parallel dimensions and dissected brains along the way.

Death by Euphoria. Dysgenics. Population Death Spiral. Genetic Superhumans. Geomagnetic Reversal. Galactic Collision. Strangelets. Whether we like it or not, everythings going to come to a pretty unpleasant halt on our planet at some point in the future. What we dont know is what form our extinction is likely to take. In this accessible and entertaining book, acclaimed writer Alok Jha explains the head-spinning apocalyptic science behind 50 horrifying doomsday scenarios.

Profecías y amenazas de todo tipo nos advierten del panorama apocalíptico que se cierne sobre nosotros. Algunas nos son muy familiares; terrorismo, virus mortales, calentamiento global, guerras, tsunamis, desastres ecologicosSin embargo, hay muchas de ellas de las que no tenemos noticia; nanobots autorreplicantes que pueden devorar un planeta entero, experimentos con energia que pueden convertirnos en agujeros negros e incluso sofisticados artilugios cientificos que podrian acabar con el Universo.Este libro profundiza en cada una de estas amenazas, en su peligro real, en los mitos que las acompañan y en las consecuencias que acarrearian cada una de ellas.Un libro entretenido con sentido practico, ejercer de guia de supervivencia ante las (inminentes) catastrofes que nos acechan.

Seremos capaces de controlar la climatología?¿Vivirá algún ser humano eternamente?¿Se puede leer la mente?Este libro es una guía de supervivencia esencial para todos aquellos lectores que sienten cur