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5 editions since 2022.
Edition 5
Columbia Scientist, Fall 2026
Fourteen pieces on dire wolves brought back from extinction, AI that misreads the depressed brain, the immunotherapy lottery, organs grown on chips, and a battery chemistry that waited decades for its moment.
Edition 4
Columbia Scientist, Fall 2025
Thirteen pieces on space mining and empire, quantum error correction, griefbots, avian flu, and the sex bias buried in a century of animal behavior research.
Edition 3
Columbia Scientist, Winter 2024
Fifteen pieces on stem cells from menstrual blood, the Ozempic craze, a one-time gene therapy for cholesterol, space debris, and why medicine needs explainable AI.
Edition 2
Columbia Scientist, Spring 2023
Seventeen pieces on heritable genome editing, geoengineering, predictive policing, nuclear magnetic resonance, and the environmental cost of gender reveal parties.
Edition 1
Columbia Scientist, Spring 2022
The inaugural edition: twenty-two pieces on the optics of LASIK, algal neurotoxins, xenotransplantation, deepfakes, and the ethics of self-driving cars and GitHub Copilot.