Month: October 2011
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A big problem for astronomers is the missing “dark matter” and “dark energy” unaccounted for when you add up all the known sources of matter and energy in the universe. But for life on Earth, we have a similar problem: Where are all the species? To detect a new species, we use polymerase chain reaction…
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Welcome to Ultraphyte, my first book blog. In my new book The Highest Frontier, student-athletes go out in space to Frontera College, where they discover how to save planet Earth. Their space habitat is run by a tribal casino and protected from ultraphytes (UV-photosynthesizing aliens) by Homeworld Security. The ultraphytes evolve like an RNA virus–which…
Joan Slonczewski 