“The future is a safe, sterile laboratory for trying out ideas in, a means of thinking about reality, a method.” — Ursula K. Le Guin
Issue 3
Fictions
From its earliest beginnings, science has been driven by imagining what is not yet possible and conjuring what is not yet known. What role do fictions play in the doing of science? How does science fiction shape the aspirations and fears of science itself? What relationship do scientists have to fiction, and vice versa?
Experimental Animals (A Reality Fiction)
A series of excerpts from the upcoming novel.
Worker Bees Cannot Leave
Constantly having to upgrade your genetic code can be overwhelming.
The Children of Chance
Welcome to Happiness Fertility Clinic.
Eureka and the Biomass
Eureka falls in love with a biological anomaly
Dynamic Genetics vs. Mann
When the UK’s National Health Service Becomes National Health Insurance, some will do anything to reduce their premiums.
Pythia
Generations blur when genes are mixed to order.
Lux Meridiani
Persistent radiance and system disturbance.
Welcome to Test Park [1]
Appropriating the test site to imagine a public destination where visitors travel through futures currently envisioned by the U.S. government, scientists, and engineers.
CFS(m): universal paradigm for computational flavor synthesis.
Author Affiliations: [TL] National Mango Research Centre (NMRC), London UK and [DB] International Ramen Manufacturers Association (IRMA), Paris FR Abstract We disclose an experimental apparatus and novel methods for ester synthesis in artificial flavor production using off-the-shelf ingredients. This new approach is the direct outcome of our ongoing research in flavor mapping using mass spectrometry […]
An Eddy in the Stream of Things
Inside the world of paleoart.
The “Extraordinary Case” of Poe’s Valdemar
How Edgar Allen Poe’s literary science became scientific literature.
Conversations With Claire Evans
Crafting a new wave of science fiction for the present, by looking to the past.
Fearsome Engines
Physics engines rule video games.
Layers of Physics
How one particle physicist learned not to know.
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