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The Science of Fiction is a newsletter on how science shapes stories about thefuture and how stories about the future shape science. Its goal is to highlightthe awesome power of science fiction as a tool that can help bring about abetter world and frankly, to engage in.
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How a videogame taught my generation that Earth is alive
Like many environmental scientists, early exposure to nature sparked my interest in the field. But so did the 1990 video game SimEarth, game studio Maxis's first release after SimCity. SimEarth was more than mere entertainment, however. It was Maxis co-fo
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The real science behind Star Trek: Lower Decks 'quantum reality drive'
The reality-bending two-part series finale of Star Trek: Lower Decks was a joyous, exhilarating, and surprisingly science-heavy romp through the multiverse. Building off an idea from Star Trek: The Next Generation-that the Federation fans know and love is
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'Absolution' reminds us nature is not what it seems
This month, I'm revisiting a blog post I wrote a decade ago about the biology underpinning Jeff VanderMeer's wildly popular novel Annihilation, the first installment of the Southern Reach Trilogy. Over the holidays, I finished the latest missive from Area
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The fascinating fungal science behind 'The Last of Us'
The following is a guest post by Michael Werner, a biology professor at the Unviersity of Utah. Werner shares this newsletter's passion for communicating about science through the lens of science fiction, and he recently spoke with two fungal scientists i
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What trippy worm ooze can teach us about saving nature
When Frank Herbert penned the sprawling space opera Dune, he was thinking a lot about ecology. He was also experimenting with psilocybin, the natural psychedelic found in "magic mushrooms." It's no wonder, then, that Herbert dreamt up a galactic Imperium
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