Space exploration captures our imagination like few other human endeavors. We picture astronauts floating gracefully through gleaming spacecraft, conducting important research while gazing at Earth’s ...

The International Space Station (ISS) is one of the most unique environments where life has ever existed, out in the low orbit of Earth. And research out today finds that bacteriophages—the viruses ...

Visit NAP.edu/10766 to get more information about this book, to buy it in print, or to download it as a free PDF. Lisa Randall knows a thing or two about gravity. On the one hand, as an avid rock ...