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• Summer 2024

  Educating Engineers for a New Nuclear Age

  Aditi Verma, Katie Snyder, Shanna Daly

  Engineering education has long prioritized technical mastery above all else. And though such prioritization has equipped engineers with powerful analytical tools, this singular focus has left them unprepared to address some of… Read More

• Fall 2025

  A Firebreak for Mirror Life

  Regulation may not be enough to prevent the potential harms of mirror life. Is it time for a “firebreak” that makes the creation of mirror organisms impossible?

• Fall 2025

  A Path Into the Bioeconomy

  By creating a space that provides safety, equipment, and training, can community biology labs spread the benefits of the bioeconomy?

• July 1, 2025

  What Does a Cormorant Feel?

  Brandon Keim, Lisa Margonelli

  Brandon Keim discusses animal personhood, movements around animal representation, and cormorants—one named Cosmos in particular.

• November 25, 2025

  Making AI Chatbots Safer

  J. B. Branch, Megan Nicholson

  AI chatbots generate conversations with users and can appear, at times, quite human. J. B. Branch discusses who is using chatbots, what the companies behind these AIs are doing, and how they might be regulated.

• March 27, 2026

  The Pocket Box™

  What happens when a technology moves from groundbreaking scientific discovery to mass consumer product? Gunnar Anderson’s story explores a mysterious new discovery that breaks the bounds of physics as we once understood them. But quickly, scientific awe morphs into commercial prospecting—with little regulation and horrifying consequences.

• June 3, 2025

  How ADHD Affects Adults

  David Goodman, Sara Frueh

  Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder is the second most prevalent psychiatric disorder in adults. David Goodman explains how ADHD affects adults, the complexities in how it’s diagnosed and treated, and open questions for research in the field.

• Fall 2025

  Three Months on the Way to FAIR

  Kelvin Droegemeier, Barbara Snyder, Toby Smith, Nancy Andrews, Willie May, Kurt Marek, Farin Kamangar

  When the National Institutes of Health announced its intention to cap the indirect costs of research, an ad hoc group of organizations joined forces to develop a more transparent model.

• Fall 2025

  A Strategy for Building Space Nuclear Systems That Fly

  Bhavya Lal, Roger M. Myers

  NASA’s new directive to design, build, and deploy a nuclear reactor on the Moon by 2030 will require a commitment to implementation, leadership from the White House, and learning from six decades of failures.

• October 14, 2025

  Not Now, But Soon: Who Is Worth Measuring?

  Julisa Tambunan, Malka Older

  Julisa Tambunan explains why gender inequality is a disaster and how collecting better data—both statistics and stories—can help create a better future for everyone. 

• Fall 2025

  A Coordinated Approach to Cannabis Policy and Product Safety

  Symone T. Griffith, Marisa L. Kreider, Maxwell C. K. Leung

  The United States urgently needs a coordinated approach to regulating the use of cannabis that prioritizes product safety and patient well-being.

• Winter 2022

  Behind the Bougainvillea Curtain: Wildfires and Inequality

  Michael Méndez

  More equitable approaches to preparation and relief efforts for wildfires and other disasters must include undocumented Latino and Indigenous migrants.

• Spring 2025

  If These Walls Could Talk

  Kathryn Freeman, Matt Moment

  

  In her enchanting narrative paintings, Kathryn Freeman imagines a world where people coexist with flora and fauna in moments of leisure and creativity.

• Summer 2025

  Where Is Singapore’s AI Regulation Headed?

  Manoj Harjani

  Singapore relies on existing laws and voluntary guidelines to govern AI. Will this relaxed approach be sufficient to respond to rising challenges as AI advances?

• Spring 2024

  Embracing the Social in Social Science

  Rayvon Fouché

  To begin thinking about why all the sciences should embrace the social in social science, I would like to start with cupcakes. In my research, context is a recurring theme, so let… Read More

• Fall 2024

  To Boost Energy Innovation, Pull Technologies Into the Market

  David M. Hart

  The future of the United States’ energy system is hotly contested. As Democratic and Republican candidates disagree about the implications of—and sometimes even the existence of—climate change, elected officials in both parties… Read More

• January 30, 2026

  Deficiency Agent

  How will artificial intelligence transform warfare? Andrew Liptak’s story brings us to the front lines to see how a glitchy combat AI deals with the tricky task of balancing the demands of a mission with the unpredictability of the battlefield.

• September 2, 2025

  How to Safely Study “Mirror Life”

  Tom Burroughs

  Worried about the potential perils of “mirror life” organisms, whose molecular structures are reverse images of their natural counterparts, scientists have widely stopped studying them—with some researchers calling for an outright ban.… Read More

• Summer 2025

  Creating a Popular Foundation for the Bio-Age

  Callie R. Chappell, Ana Paulina Quiroz, David Sun Kong, Drew Endy

  Much as local libraries laid a foundation for the information age by building American literacy in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, community bio labs could usher in the bio-age by building bioliteracy.

• Winter 2025

  Our Bases Are Precarious!

  Wilko Graf von Hardenberg

  Sea level rise has become a standard indicator of how humans are transforming the planet. But our ideas about sea level, why we measure it, and how it varies have changed radically over the centuries.

• Summer 2025

  For Better Soil, Get Better Data

  Vivian Zhong, Clay Mitchell

  If you were buying a house, would you expect the value of the property to be based on its current condition, or its condition 50 years ago? When it comes to farmland… Read More

• Winter 2026

  A Capacity for World-Building

  Tavares Strachan

  

  Across sculpture, painting, text, and music, Tavares Strachan creates immersive environments that blend everyday spaces with surreal landscapes.

• December 17, 2025

  Bonum Certamen

  Would you trust artificial intelligence to coach your favorite sports team? This month’s Future Tense Fiction story brings us straight to the pitch, where a soccer team is battling its way toward the Premier League with the help of an unusual, technologically enabled manager.

• December 12, 2025

  A Lion Roars in Longyearbyen

  Following the mass extinction of most species, the animals that fill a zoo in a future Arctic metropolis are lab-made—with one exception: an aging lion. When the lion escapes in the middle of the city’s Christmas festivities, a complex hunt ensues.

• July 18, 2025

  Reconsidering “Mirror Life”

  Jason Lloyd

  Just as humans have left and right hands that are mirror images of one another, the molecules in our cells have similar properties. Proteins, for instance, are composed of “left-handed” amino acids.… Read More

• Winter 2023

  The Complicated Legacy of Terry Wallis and His Brain Injury

  Joseph J. Fins

  illustration by Shonagh Rae In the eight years that I have been teaching a seminar on disability rights and brain injury at Yale Law School, I have never come close to tears. But last… Read More

• Summer 2025

  Innovation’s Hidden Scaffolds

  Lisa Margonelli

  Call it the Vannevar Index: The greater the pressure on the scientific enterprise, the more one hears about Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s science advisor. The New York Times has mentioned Vannevar Bush… Read More

• Fall 2025

  Tracing the Roots of Motion Capture

  

  Frank and Lillian Gilbreth’s pioneering motion studies laid the groundwork for the sophisticated systems used in biomechanics, animation, and virtual environments today.

• Summer 2025

  “There’s a Real Urgency to Be Ready When That Bioconvergence Happens.”

  Todd Young, Molly Galvin

  Senator Todd Young shares his vision for how emerging biotechnologies can revolutionize agriculture, industry, and warfighting.

• Winter 2025

  AI and Copyright Law

  In “Who Is Responsible for AI Copyright Infringement?” (Issues, Fall 2024), Michael P. Goodyear presents a novel argument for treating AI systems as legal persons capable of direct liability for… Read More