Extreme environments and the unique organisms teeming in them are unique natural and scientific resources worthy of special conservation. Pictured below is an orange-colored Cyclops found inhabiting an alkaline lake.

The Achilles Heel of AI.

First, you string together a peptide and examine it carefully. Then another to examine your hypothesis regarding protein-protein interaction. Tired of test tubes, you transfect the synthetic genome into tissue culture cells. Seeing cytopathology, envisioning a killer paper, the mouse in your hand…