Future Tense
Skepticism About Biotechnology Isn’t Anti-Science
By Tess Doezema “Keep Frankenfish off my Dish!” a protester’s sign read. Another, adorned with six red hearts, suggested that “real people love real salmon.” A couple of years ago,
In Praise of Self-Driving Cars and Fender-Benders
By Elizabeth Garbee and Andrew Maynard Two weeks ago, a driver failed to yield to another vehicle making a turn at a cross street just minutes away from my office
If There Is Water on Mars, Who Gets to Use It?
By Rhett Larson Humans settle around water, especially in the desert. Indeed, our earliest civilizations developed around desert water bodies like the Nile, Tigris, and Euphrates. With NASA’s recent discovery
How I Became a Science Diplomat
By Marga Gual Soler When I finally finished my Ph.D. program after 11 years of training for a research career in the biomedical sciences, I couldn’t help feeling that something
Fight ISIS by Thinking Inside the Bot
By Heather M. Roff, David Danks, and Joseph H. Danks What if we told you that fighting ISIS could be done cheaply, relatively easily, in a manner that would not
The Creator of the Internet Archive Should Be the Next Librarian of Congress
By Dan Gillmor In January, James Billington, the Librarian of Congress, will retire after a long career in public service. He’s held a post that carries tremendous influence: running the world’s largest
A.I. Thee Wed
By Gary Marchant The Supreme Court’s recent 5–4 decision in Obergefell v. Hodges legalizing same-sex marriage across the United States has already spawned speculation about “what will be next” in expanding marital rights. As the