Future Science

Future Science Synopsis

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