God Bless The Child
By Alyx Jordan. On the Mars Opportunity rover: “Her body doubled as its own monument.”
My Battery Is Low
By Catherine Strayhall. A first-person account of living and dying on Mars.
Recovery Commands
By Abby E. Murray. On the end of a long-distance relationship with NASA’s Mars Rover, Opportunity.
Seven Minutes of Terror
By JS Makkos. A poem in a microchip on the surface of Mars, far from consumerist Earth.
The Kilogram Goes 2.0
By Ed Granger. On the kilogram and our need for some still point to stabilize this spinning plate we teeter on.
Incident Light
By EJ Shu. The light-trapping nanotechnology in birds-of-paradise feathers contain the darkest hues of black on earth.
Lone Star
By Tanmoy Das Lala. In a chaotic universe, a black hole drags a star to its illuminated end.
Losing Galileo
By Olga Demott-Bond. Galileo exposes how Brexit puts the UK’s scientific collaboration in jeopardy.
After the Tsunami
By EJ Shu. Hundreds of species sailed the oceans on rafts of plastic, spurred by the massive 2011 Japanese tsunami.
Chat Room Deletions
By Devon Balwit. In the Toronto van attack, online violence spills onto the streets.