Ghosts in the Machine
By Chandra Steele. The winning poem from our weekly challenge delves into facial recognition technology.
A Day Made of Atoms Like Ours
By Jed Myers. The winning poem from our poetry challenge imagines what lies on the other side of our particular darkness.
The Chicxulub Impact Initiates a Mass Extinction
By EJ Shu. A poet time travels 66 million years to the site of Earth’s last mass extinction.
IPOpallooza Gentrification Math
By Gerry Sarnat. Will San Francisco experience a new IPO-driven gold rush?
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.