The Book of Barely Imagined Beings

Lichens and algae could be the first life forms we find on Earth-like exoplanets, by looking for their light signatures in a planet...

In the fourth century BC, Zhuanzi wrote of an old man tossed in the tumult at the base of a tall waterfall. Terrified onlookers rushed to h...

This lichen is invariably one of the first species to arrive and grow on fresh lava. Species in the genus Stereocaulon have achieved this ph...

The still explosions on the rocks the lichens, grow by spreading, gray, concentric shocks. They have arranged to meet the rings around th...