October 2017

Sea sediments examined to look for bacteria (Photo courtesy Michael Graw/ University of Delaware)

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An article published in the journal “Environmental Microbiology” describes a study on a group of bacteria called Parcubacteria, a group that could be so large that it could be a superphylum. A team of scientists studied these bacteria that were found during the Deepsea Challenge expedition in the Mariana Trench by director James Cameron, who is among the authors of the article, to understand their characteristics with similarities and differences from bacteria living on the mainland.

Voyage of the Star Wolf by David Gerrold (Italian edition)

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The novel “Voyage of the Star Wolf” by David Gerrold was published for the first time in 1990. It’s part of the Star Wolf series.

The starship LS-1187 doesn’t have a name for it has to be conquered in battle. It’s assigned to the fleet which has the task of protecting the interstellar commercial route known as Silk Road and the planets on the route from possible attacks by the Morthan Solidarity.

Against any prediction, the fleet is attacked by Morthan starships that outgun them and the result is disastrous. The starship LS-1187 gests severely damaged and ends up drifting into space, with very little chance for the crew members who weren’t killed in the attack to survive. Its Executive Officer Jonathan Thomas Korie must take command to bring the starship to salvation but things start getting bad.

Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) in Context Is for Kings (Image courtesy CBS / Netflix)

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“Context Is for Kings” is the third episode of the TV show “Star Trek: Discovery” and follows “Battle at the Binary Stars”.

Note. This article contains several spoilers about “Context Is for Kings”.

As I easily predicted, Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) doesn’t remain in jail very long. After 6 months she gets transferred with other prisoners but the shuttle she travels in is intercepted by the starship USS Discovery. There, Captain Gabriel Lorca (Jason Isaacs) assigns Burnham to the engineering section where she discovers that there’s a top secret project under development.