Artificial Life

Providence St. Vincent Medical Center is the first in the state to replace a patient's failing aortic heart valve by using instruments threaded through an artery in the groin.

Aldous Huxley's celebrated depiction of a deracinated future turns 80 this year. Perhaps no work in the genre infelicitously labeled science fiction has had so...

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New submitter Hector's House writes "'Nothing is certain. Nothing is secure,' reflects one of the characters in Paolo Bacigalupi's novel The Windup Girl. In 23rd century Bangkok, life for many hangs by a thread. Oil has run out; risin