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Covers:  space exploration, radio astronomy, space science, science education, astronomy, physics, seti, commercial space flight, cosmology
Journalist, universe liker, trail runner, contributor @SciAm @Undarkmag. Author, They Are Already Here, Making Contact, Countdown.

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I'm a freelance science writer, contributor to WIRED Science, and the author of the book MAKING CONTACT: JILL TARTER AND THE SEARCH FOR EXTRATERRESTRIAL INTELLIGENCE. I like books, bikes, trails, dogs, coffee, wormhole internet searches, windows, and the times when the light outside is really yellow.

More things, including a writing portfolio, live on my website at www.sarahscoles.com.

https://www.amazon.com/Making-Contact-Tarter-Extraterrestrial-Intelligence/dp/1681774410/

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Looking for Dark Matter Under A Mountain

Looking for Dark Matter Under A Mountain

A mile beneath Italy's Gran Sasso mountain lies the DarkSide-50 detector. The three-story cylinder was built …

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Why Astronomers Will Hate The Internet of Things

Why Astronomers Will Hate The Internet of Things

Robot lawnmowers are just one of the many coming gadgets that will be incorporated into the Internet of Thing…

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Alien FAQ: 6 questions about strange cosmic radio bursts

Alien FAQ: 6 questions about strange cosmic radio bursts

report that bursts of radio waves from the distant universe exhibit a weird mathematical pattern have freshl…

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Liquid Water Could Be Just Beneath the Surface on Mars

Liquid Water Could Be Just Beneath the Surface on Mars

It's nothing you'd want to baste a turkey with, but researchers have found evidence of supersalty brines on t…

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Is It Time To Phone E.T.?

Is It Time To Phone E.T.?

In our search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI), we humans have mostly just waited, and listened, for …

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Is this ET? Mystery of strange radio bursts from space

Is this ET? Mystery of strange radio bursts from space

Mysterious radio wave flashes from far outside the galaxy are proving tough for astronomers to explain. Is it…

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Living Cells Can Be Reprogrammed With Light, Scientists Say. The Pentagon Is Trying to Build the Machine to Do It.

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Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Scientists at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the Pentagon’s R&D arm, are studying ways to reprogram cells using light. To pull it off, DARPA needs to build a sort of 3D printer that could fit inside individual cells so that they can receive “files” to encode new genetic instructions. The tech could help the U.S. stay ahead of its adversaries in biomanufacturing and medicine, but there is also great potential for abuse.
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Living Cells Can Be Reprogrammed With Light, Scientists Say. The Pentagon Is Trying to Build the Machine to Do It.

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Support networks aim to help kids through the polycrisis

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Sometime in the late 2000s, Pim Sullivan-Tailyour was sitting in the back of a car, headed toward her great-grandmother’s tiny town in the south of Thailand. She watched big mountains pass by out the window. She was just six years old but was about to be hit by an adult-size realization. “They were just quarried out,” she says.
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