astrobiology feature

As public interest in all things astrobiology is flying high right now, I have written another feature on the area, focusing on the search for life on Earth and in the rest of the Universe. Featuring exoplanets, Curiosity, Chile's Atacama desert, Lake Vostok, Carl Sagan, Galileo (spacecraft) ...

The feature is out in today's issue of Current Biology, you can freely access the

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(NB: my features remain on free access only until the next issue appears, i.e. normally 2 weeks, sometimes 3, and they return to free access a year after publication)

If that leaves you hungry for more, you could always try to get hold of a copy of this book:



which came out in its second, fully revised and updated edition last year - full details here