FUTURE SCIENCE ESSAYS FROM THE CUTTING EDGE

THE NEXT WAVE OF SCIENCE WRITING IS HERE. EDITOR MAX BROCKMAN HAS TALENT-SPOTTED 19 YOUNG SCIENTISTS, WORKING ON LEADING-EDGE RESEARCH ACROSS A WIDE RANGE OF FIELDS. NEARLY HALF OF THEM ARE WOMEN, AND ALL OF THEM ARE GREAT COMMUNICATORS THEIR PASSION AND EXCITEMENT MAKES THIS COLLECTION A WONDERFULLY INVIGORATING READ. WE HEAR FROM AN ASTROBIOLOGIST AT THE JET PROPULSION LABORATORY IN PASADENA ABOUT THE POSSIBILITIES FOR LIFE ELSEWHERE IN THE SOLAR SYSTEM (AND THE UNIVERSE); FROM THE DIRECTOR OF YALE'S COMPARATIVE COGNITION LABORATORY ABOUT WHY WE KEEP MAKING THE SAME MISTAKES; FROM A CAMBRIDGE LAB ABOUT DNA SYNTHESIS; FROM THE TANZANIAN SAVANNAH ABOUT WHAT LIES BEHIND ATTRACTIVENESS; WE HEAR ABOUT HOW TO BREED PLANTS TO WITHSTAND DISEASE, ABOUT WAYS TO EXTRACT SIGNIFICANCE FROM THE INTERNE'S ENORMOUS DATASETS, ABOUT OCEANOGRAPHY, NEUROSCIENCE, MICROBIOLOGY, AND EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOLOGY.