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Carl Zimmer

Carl Zimmer is the award-winning New York Times columnist who has been hailed as “the country’s most respected science journalist.” He is the author 14 previous books, including She Has Her Mother’s Laugh and Parasite Rex. Zimmer contributed to the coverage that won the New York Times the Pulitzer Prize for public service in 2021.

Microbes can grow in clouds and even divide in two.

A Brief and Amazing History of Our Search for Life in the Clouds

By collecting samples after climbing a high peak and firing rockets with special traps into the upper atmosphere, scientists have found microbes living in thin air