«Un libro rivoluzionario. Per chi cerca un libro davvero originale su un campo di ricerca completamente nuovo.»Financial TimesNessuno finora è riuscito a creare la vita. A tutt’oggi, pur con tutte le dichiarazioni roboanti della «biologia sintetica», l’unico modo per «costruire» la vita è sempre e solo la vita. È evidente che ci sfugge ancora un ingrediente, qualcosa che spieghi la complessità del fenomeno vitale.Tuttavia, sulla base di re...

'The most sheerly enjoyable history of science of recent years' The Spectator'This is one of the best science books I have read in a decade' Paul DaviesLife is Simple tells the remarkable story of how a thirteenth century monk's search for simplicity led to the emergence of the modern world.We begin in the turbulent times of the medieval friar, William of Occam, who first articulated the principle that the ...

Life is the most extraordinary phenomenon in the known universe; but how does it work? Even in this age of cloning and synthetic biology, the remarkable truth remains: nobody has ever made anything living entirely out of dead material. Life remains the only way to make life. Are we missing a vital ingredient in its creation?Like Richard Dawkins' The Selfish Gene, which provided a new perspective on evolution, Life on the Edge alters our understanding of life's dyn...

«Ho letto “La vita è semplice” e sono rimasto catturato dalla sua tesi centrale: che la scienza, anche se viene percepita come complicata, è in realtà il perseguimento della semplicità. Johnjoe ha creato un libro affascinante che intreccia storia, scienza e lettere per mostrare quello che la scienza è veramente. »Michael Brooks«“La vita è semplice” descrive brillantemente il contesto in cui visse e lavorò Guglielmo di Occam e l'effetto dirompent...

Life is the most extraordinary phenomenon in the known universe; but how does it work? Even in this age of cloning and synthetic biology, the remarkable truth remains: nobody has ever made anything living entirely out of dead material. Life remains the only way to make life. Are we missing a vital ingredient in its creation?Like Richard Dawkins' The Selfish Gene, which provided a new perspective on how evolution works, Life on the Edge alters our understanding of ...

Quantum Evolution presents a revolutionary new scientific theory by asking: is there a force of will behind evolution? In his astonishing first book, Johnjoe McFadden shows that there is.‘McFadden’s bold hypothesis that quantum physics plays a key role in the origin and evolution of life looks increasingly plausible. The weird behaviour of matter and information at the quantum level could be just what is needed to explain life’s astonishing properties. If these ideas are right, the...

Durante el turbulento siglo XIII, el principio de la navaja de Occam cambió nuestra percepción del mundo al demostrar que las respuestas más simples suelen ser las más acertadas.En La vida es simple, el científico Johnjoe McFadden recorre siglos de descubrimientos —desde el universo heliocéntrico de Copérnico hasta la mecánica cuántica de Einstein y el ADN de Watson y Crick, pasando por las leyes de Newton y la teoría de la evolución de Darwin— para señalar cómo la simplic...

Life is Simple tells the remarkable story of how a thirteenth century monk's search for simplicity led to the emergence of the modern world.We begin in the turbulent times of the medieval friar, William of Occam, who first articulated the principle that the best answer to any problem is the simplest. This theory, known as Occam's razor, cut through the thickets of medieval metaphysics to clear a path for modern science. We follow the razor in the hands of the giants of sci...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AMAZON BEST SCIENCE BOOKS LIVRO DO ANO DO FINANCIAL TIMES E DO INDEPENDENT CUIDADO: ESTE É UM LIVRO DE BIOLOGIA QUÂNTICA! A vida no limite altera o entendimento sobre as dinâmicas fundamentais de nosso mundo. Apresentando experiências da vanguarda da ciência, Jim Al-Khalili e Johnjoe McFadden revelam o ingrediente vital que nos falta para compreender a origem da vida: a mecânica quântica. Guiando o leitor por descobertas recentes, os autores transmitem a empolgaçã...

"Este livro descreve com brilhantismo o efeito transformador da doutrina de Guilherme de Ockham sobre a nossa compreensão da natureza e do universo." – Philip Pullman“É inútil fazer com mais aquilo que pode ser feito com menos.”Com esse raciocínio límpido e engenhosamente simples, Guilherme de Ockham, um frade franciscano que viveu na Inglaterra do século XIV, desencadeou uma revolução na forma de entender o mundo.Seu princípio filosófico f...

Life is the most extraordinary phenomenon in the known universe; but how did it come to be? Even in an age of cloning and artificial biology, the remarkable truth remains: nobody has ever made anything living entirely out of dead material. Life remains the only way to make life. Are we still missing a vital ingredient in its creation? Jim Al-Khalili and Johnjoe Macfadden reveal the hitherto missing ingredient to be quantum mechanics and the strange phenomena that lie at the heart of this m...

A tudomány máig legnagyobb megválaszolatlan kérdése, hogy az élettelen atomok és molekulák hogyan alakulnak át szerető, gyűlölködő, vágyakozó, rettegő, gondolkodó élő anyaggá. Amire bolygónk legegyszerűbb mikrobája is képes, azt mi, emberek még mindig nem tudtuk megvalósítani: nem tudunk tisztán élettelen anyagok felhasználásával életet teremteni. Talán elkerülte a figyelmünket, hogy mi teszi elevenné az élőket? Jim Al-Khalili és Joe McFadden az életnek nevezett rejtélyes kirakós játék hiá...