Illustration of a robot embracing a child, and another robot embracing an adult, against the backdrop of an outdoor playground

Actually Naneen

By Malka Older

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We Are Not Ready to Deal With Gene-Edited Athletes

By Walter G. Johnson, Diana M. Bowman, Lucille M. Tournas, and Andrew Maynard

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An illustration showing a celestial gate with a drone floating overhead, and a screen to one side with a "stop" hand on it, along with many small lights and buttons. A small human figure stands in front of the closed gate, bathed in light emanating from a nearby security camera.

A Priest, a Rabbi, and a Robot Walk Into a Bar

By Andrew Dana Hudson

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Rewatching Rollerball in 2019

By Devoney Looser

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Illustration for the story "Affordances" by Cory Doctorow, showing two people conferring while using handheld devices, against a background of floating facial-recognition displays.

Affordances

By Cory Doctorow

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An illustration of a giant human head, laying on its side, bright blue, in a lab space, with a bunch of human figures on hovering machines tending to it, testing it, and building it.

Double Spiral

By Marcy Kelly

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What the Dead Man Said

By Chinelo Onwualu

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Why Are There So Many Weird Tech Patents?

By Rose Eveleth

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Cartoon-style illustration showing a young woman's head, eyes closed, looking downward, shadowed by two ghostly images of women with no eyes, against a warped, checkered background.

Zero in Babel

By E. Lily Yu

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An illustration of an astronaut in low gravity, floating in a space station, surrounded by tentacle-like green plants

Space Leek

By Chen Qiufan

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