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Michael Gross is Science Writer in Residence at Birkbeck College, London, and a working researcher in protein biochemistry. He is the author of Life on the Edge, and his articles on science regularly appear in The Independent of London.

• Title : Light and Life
• Author : Michael Gross
• Rating : 4.54 (257 Vote)
• Publish : 2015-7-5
• Format : Hardcover
• Pages : 176 Pages
• Asin : 0198564805
• Language : English

Michael Gross is Science Writer in Residence at Birkbeck College, London, and a working researcher in protein biochemistry. He is the author of Life on the Edge, and his articles on science regularly appear in The Independent of London.

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Packed with eye-catching illustrations and boxed features on important scientific topics, Light and Life is science writing at its brightest.. Light, more than any other physical phenomenon, lies at the heart of almost every aspect of life. In a breezy and informative style, Gross explains the "oxygen revolution," when photosynthesis changed not only life but the planet itself (by pumping oxygen into the atmosphere and creating the ozone layer, among other things). To give just one example: photosynthesis, which converts sunlight into usable energy, creates the calories that sustain you, the oxygen you breathe, even the ozone layer that protects you from dangerous radiation. He describes the workings of chloroplasts, and the most bizarre aspect of light's relationship to life: bioluminescence, the generation of light by plants and animals (from the flashl

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