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

Keeping an Eye on Climate Change

Space Exploration Isn’t Just About Science

How Frankenstein’s Monster Became Sexy

Citizen Science Isn’t Just About Collecting Data

By Jason Lloyd The earthquake near Washington, D.C., five years ago in August 2011—the one that damaged the Washington Monument and the National Cathedral but had little other noticeable impact—caught

How a Volcano Helped Inspire Frankenstein

By Kent Linthicum Two hundred years ago this June, during a dreadfully cold and wet summer, Mary Shelley began writing Frankenstein. Since then Frankenstein has become iconic, spawning a legion

Paolo Bacigalupi Uses Fiction and Law to Debate Whether Robots Are Capable of Murder

Law prof ponders: If a highly advanced robot kills, is it murder or product liability?

Future Tense Fiction: “Mika Model,” by Paolo Bacigalupi

“The girl, the robot … this thing—I’d seen her before, all right. I’d seen her in technology news stories about advanced learning node networks…”