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Product Description The Evening Discourses from the Royal Institution offer lively discussions of contemporary science for a broad audience. This volume features chapters on the search for extraterrestrial life and on the Martian meteorite at the center of recent speculation about life on Mars. The book containsessays based on sixteen of the talks, and other topics include the future of television, the use of spectroscopy to analyze Medieval manuscripts, the construction of machines with molecule-based memories, and the outlook for the leaning tower in Pisa. About the Author P. Day, Director and Resident Professor of Chemistry, Royal Institution of Great Britain.