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Chapter Fourteen: The Paper

Richard P Grant | 25 March 2024

The woman slammed the paper down.
“Who is this journalist? Why don’t we know about her?”

Tubes in a centrifuge

For the love of science, Part 1

Deborah Flusberg | 17 March 2024

The lab stretched in all directions like a beach at low tide, its habitat revealed by the passing wave of the daytime rush.

Stack of books, artistically blurred

Escape velocity: 96 new additions to the Lab Lit List!

Jenny Rohn | 25 February 2024

We are pleased to present the most recent update to our list of lab lit fiction. It’s a particularly big one this time: although…

An image of a lab

Spoils

João Ramalho-Santos | 4 February 2024

Unless they happen to you, disasters are initially acknowledged as far-away abstractions. Yes, a terrible thing happened, but terrible things happen everywhere, every day….

a campfire

Stories around the fire

Richard Duffy and Giulia Sebastio | 20 December 2023

Dom and Rachel felt like kids again. This camping trip had been almost identical to the one they’d done as teenagers. Admittedly without their…

And there she wept

Seelye Martin | 21 November 2023

The surveillance video showed her at 2:45 PM in the lobby of the Moscone South Conference Center, sitting on a bench, her face in her hands, sobbing.

Chapter Thirteen: The Breakup

Richard P Grant | 3 September 2023

Perhaps the beer would help, drown out the screaming and make it bearable.

A cartoon picture of viruses

Chapter Twelve: The Interview

Richard P Grant | 6 July 2023

Toni suppressed a laugh. Weren’t scientists meant to be observant?

Priority

João Ramalho-Santos | 23 April 2023

When retelling the story at meetings or parties, I often throw in a few twists and white lies.

Sky

Rock bottom

Zöe Sparque | 29 January 2023

Will I be front story news? Will they make me look like a reckless fool, one of those crazy daredevil tourists? Just to satisfy and entertain their readers, so they can feel superior?

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