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Websites

Circumstellar habitable zones – What makes a friendly neighbourhood?
www.space.com/searchforlife/ seti_circumstellar_010320.html
Article that looks at the necessary ingredients for life on other planets.

Channel 4 Games – Build an Alien
www.channel4.com/science/microsites/ R/rilectures2003/games.html
Fun game where you can build your own alien online.

European Space Agency
http://sci.esa.int
Lots of images of space and video footage on this site with a diary of events and a news section.

Is there anybody out there?
www.space.com/searchforlife/ astrobiology_special_010215-2.html
Intriguing article on looking for life beyond Earth.

Life everywhere – The maverick science of astrobiology
www.daviddarling.info/works/ LifeEverywhere/LifeEverywhere_ch1.html
British astronomer and science writer discusses carbon-based life, the universe and everything.

Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI)
www.seti.org
Aims to explore, understand and explain the origin, nature and prevalence of life in the universe. This US site has loads of info and images.

The evolution of life on Earth
www.brembs.net/gould.html
Stephen Gould discusses natural selection and the history of life in great detail.

Terrestrial Planet Finder
http://planetquest.jpl.nasa.gov/ TPF/tpf_index.html
Nasa project with the primary goals of detecting Earth-like planets that orbit nearby stars and searching for signs of the large-scale effects that life would have on a planet's chemistry.

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Amazing Stories, American magazine cover, May 1931

Amazing Stories, American magazine cover, May 1931
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Cosmic Company: The search for life in the universe by Seth Shostak and Alexandra Barnett (Cambridge University Press, 2003)

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Cosmic Company: The search for life in the universe by Seth Shostak and Alexandra Barnett (Cambridge University Press, 2003))
The authors ponder the possibility of alien life and the consequences of receiving a signal from the cosmos. They explain why scientists think sentient life might exist on other worlds, how we could discover it, and what it might be like. Entertaining, informative and lavishly illustrated.
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The Phoenix Lights: A sceptic's discovery that we are not alone by Lynne Kitei (Hampton Roads Publishing, 2004)

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The Phoenix Lights: A sceptic's discovery that we are not alone by Lynne Kitei (Hampton Roads Publishing, 2004)
One evening in 1997 thousands of Arizona residents witnessed a mile-long, V-shaped formation of lights flying in the skies overhead. Dr Lynne Kitei had been witnessing and documenting this phenomenon for months and this book is an exhaustively researched look at the wider implications of this remarkable event, with dozens of astonishing photographs.
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Wonderful Life: Burgess Shale and the nature of history by Stephen J Gould  (Vintage, 2000)

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Wonderful Life: Burgess Shale and the nature of history by Stephen J Gould (Vintage, 2000)
An account of a revolution in our understanding of life's history, Gould tells how three obscure British scientists completely changed our view of evolution by discovering a unique group of 530 million-year-old creatures in the Burgess Shale fossil deposit in the Rockies.
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Life's Solution: Inevitable humans in a lonely universe by Simon Conway Morris (Cambridge University Press, 2004)

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Life's Solution: Inevitable humans in a lonely universe by Simon Conway Morris (Cambridge University Press, 2004)
Morris explores the evidence demonstrating life's almost eerie ability to navigate to a single solution, repeatedly. If these are all evolutionary inevitabilities, then where are our counterparts across the galaxy? The tape of life can only run on a suitable planet, and it seems that such Earth-like planets may be much rarer than hoped.
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