Shoshana Walter explores how the giant substance treatment industry fails people desperate for help.

Sandia Starforgers Writers Retreat and Workshop: April-May 2027 – Albuquerque, NM, Fri Apr 30, 2027 - Mon May 3, 2027 - Sandia Starforgers Writers Retreat and Workshop 2027 Instructional Theme: CHARAC...

The controversial AI-focused private school Alpha School is making its students do some unusual things before enrolling.

Last week to submit! We invite writers to submit to the 2026 Uncharted Reprint Prize from September 01 to September 30, 2026. We want to celebrate the stories that may have gotten lost in the shuffle,...

Sherry Turkle's latest book, Artificial Intimacy: Who We Become When We Talk to Machines, comes out on September 29.

Malevolence may take many forms but not often in a green gardeners handbook.

Step into the winding corridors and lavish interiors of Abernathy House as we welcome Micaiah Johnson to The Center for the launch of The Unhaunting, a literary horror novel that reimagines the haunted house.In The Unhaunting, Shantell’s best friend Avery mysteriously...

"I will challenge RFK Jr. to write a poem as good as me any day of the week."

The planet’s radius may have shrunk by between four and six miles since it was formed due to global cooling, a contraction that is up to 30 percent larger than previously estimated.

This week, many authors who are part of the Anthropic copyright class action settlement began receiving notices like these: The one on the right invites authors to review and confirm their claims: jus...

Hugo Awards celebrate the best in science fiction literature. Leaked emails suggest organizers of last year's show in China tampered with votes and excluded potential nominees for political reasons.

Fountain Fellows is a project of wokelicious press. Founded in 2026, we are offering a new opportunity for emerging poets & writers to receive mentorship for developing their chapbooks and lite…

A floating mass of trees and vegetation in British Columbia’s Williston Lake attracted international attention after it was filmed this summer by boaters—and then seemed to disappear.

Baen Books has established a new short story award named in honor of David A. Drake. Submissions open on September 24. As with the two current writing awards sponsored by Baen—the Jim Baen Memorial…

A Department of Veterans Affairs memo obtained by ProPublica erects new roadblocks to care for veterans with the rare but deadly cancer. The agency cites no new science but relies on an executive orde...

The Sun has likely passed so close to other stars in the past that it captured thousands of small interstellar objects from alien systems, reports a new study.

Otherworldly yet grounded, ominous yet tender, The Asterist is a captivating first contact story that will appeal to readers of Andy Weir and John ...

An extra layer of cruelty is added by limiting communication access for Deaf people.

An unmanned submarine mapping West Antarctica's Dotson Ice Shelf reported strange under-ice structures, then went silent after traveling underwater roughly ten miles towards the ice shelf's center. Th...

Siblings Cody and Kaleigh Brendle have grown up with the right to community integration. Now, they worry those protections for people with disabilities like them are being eroded.

Climate vulnerability depends on intersecting factors, such as gender, a topic missing from much global climate discussion.

A new 19th/SurveyMonkey Poll is among the first to shed light on sexual violence faced by women with disabilities in the workplace.

People are sick of tech billionaires trying to control our lives

The annual Wow! Literary Award for emerging writers and poets (formerly Cosmic Chronicles Literary Prize) is a contest for emerging writers of all ages whose work explores questions of interspecies co...

AI has become a widespread watchdog, yet its weaknesses are causing neurodivergent individuals to be wrongly flagged for their writing.

Users on Kalshi will even allow users to bet on whether drug trials for potentially lifesaving drug trials will succeed.

Join a panel of seasoned genre authors to discuss their experiences publishing with small traditional presses.. Event starts at August 16, 2026 4:00 PM EDT

As artificial intelligence proliferates in American life, new research finds that the technology is poised to amplify stereotypes about people with intellectual disabilities.

Demand may very well skyrocket after the Kremlin effectively declared him an enemy of the state.