In Search of the Double Helix

by John Gribbin

Published 20 September 1985
Molecular biology is one of the great modern sciences. Headline-making developments in cloning, genetic engineering and the fight against disease all stem from the breakthrough in the 1950s and 60s of the identification of the molecule of life, DNA. This book sets out to tell the entire story of...Read more

Once the stuff of science-fiction novels, black holes, and their even stranger cosmologican counterparts, white holes and wormholes, are now the subject of serious inquiry. Physicists who formerly shunned these astrophysical eccentricities have begun to theorize about them and search for the physical proof of their existence with the...Read more

In the Beginning

by John Gribbin

Published 17 May 1993
Drawing on the latest measurements of the "ripples in time" that mark the birth of the universe, the author of this book goes beyond the Big Bang to address the questions of how and why the universe came into being, and what its future and evolution holds in store....Read more

In this exploration of our relationshop with the universe, the authors search for the grand design of the universe and the meaning of the so-called coincidences that allow life to exist on our planet. They present the latest advances in understanding of the nature of dark matter, explore mini...Read more