Frontiers II: More Recent Discoveries About Life, Earth, Space, and the Universe is a non-fiction book by Isaac and Janet Asimov. The collection of science essays was first published by E.P. Dutton/Truman in 1993.
Contents[]
- Life: Past, Present, and Future
- The Power of Proteins
- The Oldest Protein?
- The Categories of Life
- Our Ancestor, the Coelacanth?
- Invading the Land
- The Egg on Land
- What Teeth Can Tell Us
- Bony Heritage
- Dinosaurs
- The Monster's Arms
- Dinowalk
- Gone—Again and Again
- Whales with Feet
- Dead as a Dodo
- The First Catalyst
- The Fifth Reptile
- Wrong about the Viceroy
- Ants—and the Animal Kingdom
- The Duckbill Platypus
- The Real Unicorn
- A Different Horse
- Heady Stuff
- The Aye-Aye
- Our Closest Relative
- Two Hominids, Two Diets
- Ostrich Eggs and Humankind
- Crossing to Australia
- Vital Cooperation
- Left, Right
- Genes in Action
- Genes, Oncogenes, and Cancer
- The Beautiful Microbes
- Delightful Diversity
- Our Planet and Our Neighbors
- Mantle and Core
- The Oldest Rocks
- Older Than We Thought
- Water—the Circulation Below
- Air—the Circulation Above
- The Deepest Lake
- The Big Melt
- Moon Rocks
- New Questions about the Planets
- The Atmosphere of Mercury
- More on Venus
- A Martian Asteroid?
- Mars for Humans
- Saturn's Rings
- Titan's Atmosphere
- Naming Neptune's Satellites
- Triton, the Last Satellite
- The Solar System's Greatest Storm
- Calculating a Satellite
- The Strange Comet
- More on Comets
- Our Own Private Sun
- Out of the Sun
- Cosmic Danger
- Invisible "Icy Planets"?
- Asteroids Around Us
- Twin Asteroids
- Space Watch
- More on Meteors
- Comet Dust
- Mines in Space
- Science and Technology
- False Alarm
- The Shrinking of the Delta
- Garbage!
- The Critters Within
- Monsters
- Noise
- Cooling Down
- Making Hydrogen
- The First Step in Synthesizing Life
- More Replication
- Nanomagic
- Fantastic Fullerenes
- Super-Diamond
- The Bacterial Miners
- The Park Phenomenon
- Saving the Species
- Plant Power
- Plant Help
- Underneath
- Business Leads the Way
- Checkmate?
- Cockroaches and Computers
- Robettes
- Once and Future Robots
- Music, Always
- The Universe from Quarks to the Cosmos
- The Usefully Small
- Quarks and the Last Particle
- The Finding of the Quark
- Quark Globs
- One Atom at a Time
- Measuring the Electron
- Einstein Is Right Again
- The Exclusion Principle
- Superheavy Elements
- As Cold as Can Be
- No Gold!
- Why Is the Sky Dark?
- Starlight and Dust
- The Bending of Light
- Tiny Twisty Light
- Mapping the Stars
- The Planet Finders
- The North Star Changes
- The Unseen Star
- The Color of Sirius
- A Young Star
- Supernovas I and II
- Measuring the Distance
- Star Clusters
- Our New Neighbor
- Galaxy Update
- Constructing a Universe
- Too Clumpy
- Millisecond Pulsar
- Luminosity
- Miniblack Holes Everywhere?
- The Black Hole Tango
- What's at the Center?
- The Cosmic Soup
- Far-Out Reality
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