Dark Biology

I was engineered in the freezing labs of Siberia to be a weapon against the dark. I never expected to be sold to the king of monsters. Elian Vance is a Venator. Genetically altered, trained to feel nothing, and lethal to the vampires that plague Neo-London. He is a tool of war—until he’s captured, stripped of his armor, and thrown onto an alien auction block. The highest bidder is a nightmare carved from obsidian scales and ancient heat. Warlord Vorakh. He is eight feet of terrifying, primal power, the last king of a dying star-faring race. The Vrail are facing extinction, silenced by a...

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In this hugely entertaining sequel to the New York Times bestselling memoir An Appetite for Wonder, Richard Dawkins delves deeply into his intellectual life spent kick-starting new conversations about science, culture, and religion and writing yet another of the most audacious and widely read...

The ocean kept its most terrifying secret for sixty-five million years. Now, it is hunting them. When the luxury research vessel Artemis is struck from beneath by an unfathomable force, marine biologist Mara Ellison and ten other survivors are cast into the dark Pacific. They wash ashore on an uncharted volcanic island, grateful to be alive. Their relief is immediately shattered. The island is not a sanctuary. It is a highly evolved trap. An intricate network of tidal channels and flooded lagoons weaves through the jungle, serving as a hunting highway for a thirty-five-foot semi-aquatic ...

High above the scorching, toxic surface of a hostile world, the floating city of Astraea is a marvel of human engineering. But beneath the golden clouds, something ancient is waking up. Elena Ward thought she was taking a routine maintenance job on a low-altitude operations station. But when an impossibly massive radar return begins tracking her ship through violent lightning storms, the mission becomes a desperate bid for her life. The corporation has been suppressing sensor alerts for over a year to protect their bottom line, and now, Elena and her crew are trapped in a crushing, high-...

In this brilliant exploration of our cosmic environment, the renowned particle physicist and New York Times bestselling author of Warped Passages and Knocking on Heaven’s Door uses her research into dark matter to illuminate the startling connections between the furthest reaches of space and...

The biggest joke in existence is that all of it was rejected by the Peer Review Committee. Universe Under Review is an absurd, sharply satirical take on evolution, told through the universe’s hopeless struggle against a catastrophically cautious Peer Review Committee. Every breakthrough that shaped reality is rejected on principle. The Peer Review Committee hated all of them. Particles? Too unstable. Stars? Too dramatic. Cells? Too experimental. Multicellularity? Absolutely not. Skeletons, lungs, warm blood? Denied for budgetary reasons. Fire? Introduces catastrophic risk without ...

Subject 734 isn’t a man. He is a thesis.Dr. Katrin Vane deals in hard data. As the university’s leading Anomalous Biologist, she knows that the thing floating in the amber vat in the sub-basement isn’t a folklore legend. He is a biological specimen. A career-maker. A set of variables to be measured, cataloged, and ignored.Until the cooling system fails.When a facility-wide lockdown seals Katrin inside the lab with the specimen, the variables change. The ice melts. The heartbeat returns. And Valeric wakes up with a hunger that has been building for five hundred years.He is ancient, ...

A young college student signs up for a research class on planet Divinity, and helps discover a new animal species. But as the class spends more time on the new planet, they find out how little they actually know.

It may be a wonderful world, but as Dan Riskin explains, it's also a dangerous, disturbing, and disgusting one. At every turn, it seems, living things are trying to eat us, poison us, use our bodies as their homes, or have us spread their eggs. In Mother Nature Is Trying to Kill You, Riskin is our guide through the natural world at its most gloriously ruthless. Using the seven deadly sins as a road map, Riskin offers dozens of jaw-dropping examples that illuminate how brutal nature can truly be.

For decades after the identification of the structure of DNA, scientists focused only on genes, the regions of the genome that contain codes for the production of proteins. Other regions that make up 98 percent of the human genome were dismissed as "junk," sequences that serve no purpose. But researchers have recently discovered variations and modulations in this junk DNA that are involved with a number of intractable diseases. Junk DNA can play vital and unanticipated roles in the control of gene expression, from fine-tuning individual genes to switching off entire chromosomes.

An accessible guide to more than 95 of the most important discoveries and theories in the history of biology. Why do bees know how to dance? Where do plants get sugar? How do animals know their mothers? Who discovered germs? The science of biology is the story of our quest to understand the...

An action adventure like Indiana Jones, a science adventure like Jurassic Park and a human feel-good story like Slumdog Millionaire. Masters of the Broken Watches is a must-read. Sebastian Miles and his team of marine biologists stare at their watches. Time outside their lab has jumped forward by twenty-two hours. Minutes before this illogical space-time event, they were analyzing a mysterious glowing nodule extracted from an unknown marine specimen. News of this marine life reaches powerful governments, inadvertently triggering a race to hunt, capture and control it. But these governments ...

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