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• December 13, 2024

  A Healing at the Triple B Trophy Lodge

  What if you could create a clone of someone who has done you harm—and then kill it? When a skeptical journalist visits the cultish “kill therapy” retreat to profile its ambitious founder, she inadvertently opens the door to histories she had long endeavored to forget.

• Summer 2024

  Bringing Communities In, Achieving AI for All

  Shobita Parthasarathy, Jared Katzman

  Hopes for the future of artificial intelligence would seem to be bright. There is, after all, a great deal of utility in AI already. AI tools can provide high-quality real-time translation for… Read More

• Summer 2023

  Regulating Space Debris

  This wicked problem needs US leadership Marilyn Harbert and Asha Balakrishnan’s call to action should be generalized to a broader international audience. Space debris presents a particularly wicked international problem; the millions… Read More

• Summer 2024

  Medicine Means More Than Molecules

  Sindy Escobar Alvarez, Sam Gill

  The Doris Duke Foundation, where we work, has a long track record of supporting early-career fellowships that allow physicians to pursue research to improve patient care. For the past 25 years, we’ve… Read More

• July 9, 2024

  A Road Map for a New Era in Biology and Medicine

  Lydia Contreras, Monya Baker

  Most people are familiar with DNA, but its cousin, RNA, has become widely known only recently. In 2020, of course, RNA was in the news all the time: the COVID-19 virus is… Read More

• Summer 2024

  “This Is Also a Time of Great Possibility and Great Capability.”

  Saul Perlmutter, Molly Galvin

  Astrophysicist Saul Perlmutter is best known for his groundbreaking discovery that the expansion of the universe is accelerating—for which he shares the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics. But Perlmutter, a professor of… Read More

• November 22, 2024

  A Time Between

  Detectives digging into evidence of a tragic death find themselves confronted with two different versions of the past—and, perhaps, the present.

• Winter 2024

  In the Heart of the Yakni Chitto

  Monique Verdin

  

  Monique Verdin began documenting the lives of her relatives in the Mississippi delta in 1998, when she was 19. That year, her grandmother Armantine Marie Billiot Verdin and other Houma elders traveled… Read More

• November 8, 2024

  Collateral Damage

  From the Future Tense Fiction archives: A short story from Justina Ireland about what happens when a robot is sent into combat alongside human soldiers.

• Summer 2023

  How to Investigate an Algorithm

  Meredith Broussard

  At the end of 2021, Sujin Kim was a senior at the University of Michigan. Eager to follow up her undergraduate political science studies with a PhD, Kim was applying to 15… Read More

• June 18, 2024

  Brent Blevins Makes Mars Policy in Congress

  Brent Blevins, Lisa Margonelli

  In this installment of Science Policy IRL, Lisa Margonelli goes behind the scenes of congressional policymaking with Brent Blevins. Blevins is a senior congressional staffer and staff director of the… Read More

• November 1, 2024

  Domestic Violence

  From the Future Tense Fiction archives: When an employee tells Kristen she can’t clock-in on time because her house is locking her inside, Kristen begins to suspect the problem runs deeper than a malfunctioning smart lock.

• October 25, 2024

  Patrons

  Cassidy McFadzean imagines extraterrestrials who selectively lift humans from Earth and transport them to a deep-space artists colony. As they do, the distant visitors, known as Patrons, dramatically shift the terrestrial communities where they touch down.

• Spring 2024

  Channels for Arctic Diplomacy

  Nataliya Shok, Katherine Ginsbach

  Illustration by Shonagh Rae During the summer of 2016, in Russia’s arctic Yamal Peninsula, a heat wave resurfaced anthrax bacteria long buried in the permafrost. The bacteria then killed thousands of reindeer… Read More

• December 21, 2021

  Episode 4: Art of a COVID Year

  In the early days of the pandemic, communities began singing together over balconies, banging pans, and engaging in other forms of collective support, release, and creativity. Artists have also been creatively responding… Read More

• Spring 2022

  Electrifying Agents and the Power Thieves of Mexico City

  Diana Montaño

  Leer en español Mugshot from Tomás Sánchez’s booking record. One morning in 1908, the fate of Tomás Sánchez, owner of the San Antonio mill on Mexico City’s Pueblita Street, took a sharp… Read More

• Summer 2023

  How Open Should American Science Be?

  In “The Precarious Balance Between Research Openness and Security” (Issues, Spring 2023), E. William Colglazier makes an important contribution to the ongoing dialog about science security, and particularly regarding the… Read More

• October 4, 2024

  Empathy Hour

  From the Future Tense Fiction archives: A story about the aftermath of massive climate migration, and the use of deepfake technology to manufacture complacence.

• Spring 2024

  Ten Years Into the Gulf Research Program

  Lauren Alexander Augustine

  On April 20, 2010, an explosion ripped through the Deepwater Horizon, an oil rig operating in the Gulf of Mexico, and triggered the worst oil spill to occur in US waters and… Read More

• Spring 2024

  An Elusive and Indefinable Boundary

  Virginia Hanusik

  

  Seven years before the release of Silent Spring in 1962, marine biologist and writer Rachel Carson wrote The Edge of the Sea. Part field guide to the Atlantic seashore, part meditation on… Read More

• September 27, 2024

  Move Fast and Fake Things

  In a recent episode of the podcast Women at Warp, the hosts discussed their favorite episodes of the various Star Trek series in which the Holodeck—a fully immersive, interactive virtual reality… Read More

• Spring 2021

  Technoscientific Bodies

  Michael Sappol

  

  The sensory pathway and radio system, in Gerhard Venzmer et al., Hand- und Lehrbuch der Krankenpflege 1 (Stuttgart: Franckh’sche Verlag, 1938), pl. 10. Originally from Fritz Kahn, Das Leben des Menschen … Read More

• April 17, 2024

  Bringing Mars Samples to Earth Sooner—and Safely

  Tom Burroughs

  NASA is seeking faster ways to deliver to Earth the soil and rock samples now being collected on Mars by the rover Perseverance, hoping to move up arrival to sometime in the… Read More

• Spring 2024

  Mud, Muddling, and Science Policy

  Lisa Margonelli

  Looking across the clam flat and the remains of a fishing weir toward the tidal marsh at Squirrel Point, Arrowsic, Maine. Photo by Lisa Margonelli. Most days, I think about science policy… Read More

• June 20, 2023

  Episode 33: Combating the “Multi-Dimensional Beast” of Chronic Pain

  Prasad Shirvalkar, Jason Lloyd

  Chronic pain, according to a 2023 study, affects more Americans than diabetes, depression, and hypertension. Yet the disease is poorly understood, often undiagnosed or misdiagnosed, and effective treatments are in short supply.… Read More

• Spring 2023

  Visions of Nursing

  Anne Wallentine

  

  Tim Okamura, Nurse Tamika, 2021, oil on wood panel, 24 x 30 in. During conflict or crisis—from wars and pandemics to individual health emergencies—nurses are often depicted in art as heroes… Read More

• Spring 2023

  The Transformation of American Nursing

  Dominique A. Tobbell

  Nursing faced a crisis in the years following World War II. The arrival of new technologies, potent pharmaceuticals, and complex surgeries had made patient care increasingly complex. The regimented, procedure-based training of… Read More

• Spring 2023

  When Our Medical Students Learn Anatomy, They See a Person, Not a Specimen

  Guo-Fang Tseng

  In 1986, a Buddhist nun named Cheng Yen started a hospital in Hualien, a rural, mountainous region in eastern Taiwan, a half-day’s journey from population centers like Taipei. A few years later,… Read More

• Winter 2024

  Economists Being Economists

  Daniel Sarewitz

  In early nineteenth-century England, bands of men known as Luddites went about smashing the automatic knitting machines that had taken their jobs. The novelist Thomas Pynchon described the situation in a 1984… Read More

• Winter 2024

  Rethinking Engineering Education

  We applaud Idalis Villanueva Alarcón’s essay, “How to Build Engineers for Life” (Issues, Fall 2023). As the leaders of an organization that has for 36 years sought to inspire, support,… Read More