Políticas de la especie

Una nueva edición revisada y actualizada de una de las obras más populares de divulgación científica en Francia, escrita con el inconfundible estilo, accesible y cautivador, de Reeves. Este libro narra la historia de nuestro cosmos.

In the beginning, Earth was an inhospitably alien place―in constant chemical flux, covered with churning seas, crafting its landscape through incessant volcanic eruptions. Amid all this tumult and disaster, life began. The earliest living things were no more than membranes stretched across microscopic gaps in rocks, where boiling hot jets of mineral-rich water gushed out from cracks in the ocean floor. Although these membranes were leaky, the environment within them became different from the raging maelstrom beyond. These havens of order slowly refined the generation of energy, using it to...

The findings reported in this book on the methods of cluster measurements will lead to new avenues using nondestructive mass spectrometry and dipole mass isomers. Much attention is given to the physics and chemistry of fullerenes and nanotubes, including the problems surrounding the formation and growth of nanotubes, electron characteristics of fullerenes, the influence of solvents, simulation of the properties of carbon clusters, etc. Some unique experimental data on the conversion of aerosols into aerogels with the formation of fractal structures is provided. In addition, the book covers...

En este libro propongo una visión histórica y pedagógica del viaje al centro del átomo. Utilizando fuentes de los protagonistas y esquemas explicativos, empiezo con su discusión en la antigüedad, salto a su inicio a finales del siglo XIX, continúo con la carrera que lo aceleró alrededor de las guerras mundiales, y concluyo con las perspectivas que abrió la guerra fría y que se dibujan en el horizonte del proyecto ITER.