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A frontiers ii

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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See Also[]

List of Books by Isaac Asimov

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