Product Description

Is 96 percent of the universe missing? Was the 1977 signal from outer space a transmission from an alien civilization? This book presents thirteen modern-day anomalies that may become tomorrow's breakthroughs. Spanning fields from chemistry to cosmology, psychology to physics, it captures the excitement and controversy of the scientific unknown.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #12758 in Books
• Published on: 2010-02-04
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 256 pages

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Review
'Whether we believe we're stardust or nuclear waste, this book keeps us hooked...' --Independent on Sunday

`Outstanding non-fiction reading' --Esquire

`Impressively knowledgeable, articulate' --Independent

`An admirably clear and clever writer'
--Evening Standard

About the Author
Michael Brooks is the author of the bestselling non-fiction title 13 Things That Don't Make Sense. In July 2011, Profile will publish his next book, Free Radicals: The Secret Anarchy of Science. He holds a PhD in quantum physics, is a consultant at New Scientist and writes a weekly column for the New Statesman