For hundreds of years afterward, scientists believed we lived in a universe teeming with life. As science journalist Jaime Green points out in her new book, “The Possibility of Life: Science ...

Welcome to the SciFri Book Club page about Riley Black’s When the Earth Was Green. There’s lots of ways to participate: Read the book, join our community space, attend an event, read an excerpt, sign ...

The Possibility of Life: Science, Imagination ... Some of the most fascinating and affecting moments in Green’s book are when she examines animals and experiences readily available in our ...

In his new book, Air-Borne, science journalist Carl Zimmer roots the “mistake” in the past of a historically neglected field: aerobiology, or the science of airborne life. Zimmer begins his ...

Science Friday featured 35 books on the program this year ... a listener who was concerned about our ability to be “compassionate towards any life except our own,” Green encouraged us to look to ...

This story is adapted from The Possibility of Life: Science, Imagination, and Our Quest for Kinship in the Cosmos, by Jaime Green ... (It is a book with lots of sneaking.) A loud noise can ...