Go with the flow
Our home planet has famously been described as a pale blue dot in the immense darkness of the Universe. It looks like that because 70% of its surface area is water, with an increasing tendency as pole caps are melting and sea levels rise. Water is essential for life, and its movements determine the fate of life on Earth.
The power of RNA
Cech’s book opens up new vistas of exciting opportunities for RNA researchers. He explains, for instance, how the common presumption that the 74% of the human genome not involved in coding for proteins is no more than junk DNA is misinformed.