As science journalist Jaime Green points out in her new book, “The Possibility of Life: Science, Imagination, and Our Quest for Kinship in the Cosmos,” the 20th century changed all that ...

A new book tackles these riddles through the lens of both science and science fiction. Science writer Jaime Green, author of the book, The Possibility of Life: Science, Imagination, and our Quest for ...

Air-BorneCarl Zimmer Dutton, $32. On March 10, 2020, 61 choir members rehearsed in a church hall in Skagit County, Wash. As they sang, a microscopic germ wafted through the air.

This April, the SciFri Book Club is reading When the Earth Was Green: Plants, Animals, and Evolution’s Greatest Romance by Riley Black. In the beginning, there were plants. Billions of years ago, ...

In Robert Zemeckis’s 1997 film Contact, Dr. Ellie Arroway (Jodie Foster) discovers an alien signal, analyzes it, cracks its code, deciphers a blueprint for a gigantic space travel machine ...

He’s the author of a new book called Air-Borne: The Hidden History of the Life We Breathe. Thanks so much for coming on to chat today, Carl. Carl Zimmer: Thanks for having me.

In a new book, “Life as No One Knows It: The Physics of Life’s Emergence,” out on Aug. 6, Sara Walker, a physicist at Arizona State University, offers a theory that she and her colleagues ...