Feb
06
What life on Venus would really look like
Space jellyfish make good science fiction, but reality might be even stranger.
5 min read
Maddie Stone
Writer, journalist, science ninja.
Jan
30
The secret history of The Science of Fiction
This week, Substack is spotlighting
[https://stories.substack.com/p/what-to-read-science-of-fiction] The Science of
Fiction in its weekly “What To
2 min read
Jan
23
Wonder Woman 1984's stark warning about Big Oil
Greed, grifts, and the oil industry are at the heart of Warner Brother's latest superhero flick.
3 min read
Jan
16
How we'd really defend Earth from an asteroid attack
In The Expanse, Earth's defenders must stop a cosmic catastrophe. Scientists weigh in on how to do it.
4 min read
Jan
09
Will humans ever reverse climate change?
If all goes well for humanity, atmospheric carbon levels could start falling in a few decades. But how far down will we bring them?
5 min read
Dec
31
Five great things about 2020 (they were all books)
In an objectively awful year, good stories were more important than ever.
6 min read
Dec
26
A scientific guide to the infernal fish of Hades
The denizens of the River Styx have some nightmarish cousins here on Earth.
6 min read
Dec
19
Why I want to punch Baby Yoda
How cute things hijack our brains and scramble our emotions.
3 min read
Dec
12
How The Expanse made realistic space travel more exciting than warp drive
Magic happens when scientists are brought into the writers' room.
8 min read
Dec
04
A thought-provoking novel on the scariest response to climate change
Eliot Peper's science fiction thriller Veil explores the promise and peril of geoengineering.
4 min read