{"product_id":"microbes-memories-in-the-500-year-microbiology-experiment-hardcover","title":"Microbes \u0026 Memories in the 500 Year Microbiology Experiment - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eHolley A. Conte\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eCharles S. Cockell\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 2014, scientists at the University of Edinburgh began a 500-year experiment: sealing microbes in glass vials, half shielded by lead, to test how long life can survive in desiccated form under cosmic and terrestrial radiation. 400 duplicate vials are stored at the University of Edinburgh-and in the \u003cstrong\u003eNatural History Museum, London\u003c\/strong\u003e-as living legacies for future generations. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut what will become of the human context around this experiment? This book documents the \u003cstrong\u003esociety, spaces, and voices of science in 2025\u003c\/strong\u003e: a time capsule of a living campus, its people, its routines, and its values.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 2024, at the ten-year time point of the microbial experiment, Astrophysics student Holley Conte conducted interviews with 30 students, faculty, and staff across the science campus, and captured a sweeping photographic record of lab life, common rooms, offices, and everyday moments. These interviews and images will themselves be archived alongside the microbes, with a copy of this volume to be kept alongside the vials in the University of Edinburgh and at the Natural History Museum in London.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis book weaves together three ideas\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ethe \u003cstrong\u003escientific backbone\u003c\/strong\u003e of the 500-year experiment - its rationale, methods, constraints, and long-term challenges of continuity and legacy;\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ethe \u003cstrong\u003ehuman narrative\u003c\/strong\u003e of working and learning in 2025 - voices, settings, aspirations, and the texture of daily life;\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ereflections on \u003cstrong\u003elegacy, memory, and continuity\u003c\/strong\u003e - how future generations might interpret or extend this project, and how scientists can plan beyond the limits of a human lifetime.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA memorable line from \u003cem\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/em\u003e sums up the experiment's spirit: \u003cstrong\u003e\"science-or some version of it-still exists in 2514.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e That hopeful gamble underpins both this microbial project and its social companion: the hope that people centuries hence will not only reopen vials, but hear our voices, see our faces, and understand our world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book is written for curious readers, science enthusiasts, historians, and anyone interested in how human lives intersect with long-term science. No advanced microbiology background required - just openness to thinking in centuries and living in moments.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 174\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.56 x 11 x 8.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 01, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53247575753011,"sku":"9781036965624","price":78.26,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/rT3hsYt_Sy9781036965624.webp?v=1776305214","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/microbes-memories-in-the-500-year-microbiology-experiment-hardcover","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}