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Where Science Meets Creative Writing
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How can we look at fossils and understand what creatures roamed the Earth millions of years ago?
How can we predict the behavior of materials deep within planetary interiors?
How can we reverse humanity’s impact on the global climate?
How can we predict habitats for life on other planets?
Doing impactful, innovative research requires training our brain to imagine the elusive unknown, even when bounded by scientific evidence. Now, more than ever in the history of human civilization, there is a pressing need to exercise our imagination muscles. Writing scientific fiction while accounting for the real science is a powerful way to do just that—to learn what is possible, what is probable, how we can change the future, and what our responsibility is to the future generation of our species.
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 15, April 2026. <br/>
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- US lawmakers intensify scrutiny of scientific-publishing practices
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- New year, old me
Nature, Published online: 17 April 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01067-wA welcome change.