Quotes from Annalee Newitz

Using predictive models from engineering and public health, designers will plan safer, healthier cities that could allow us to survive natural disasters, pandemics, and even a radiation calamity that drives us underground.

Millions of nerdy kids who grew up in the 1980s could only find the components they needed at local Radio Shacks, and the stores were like a lifeline to a better world where everybody understood computers.

The myth that young people should leave the nest at 18, never to return, started with iconic American Benjamin Franklin.

Cities are not static objects to be feared or admired, but are instead a living process that residents are changing all the time.

Science fiction is exciting because it promises to show the world and the universe from perspectives radically unlike what we've seen before.

You've probably heard the stories about how io9 got its name. And maybe you know that io9 co-founder Charlie Jane Anders and I were inspired by Kathy Keeton, whose groundbreaking magazine 'Omni' combined coverage of real science with science fiction. But what you probably don't know is how unlikely it was that io9 ever succeeded at all.

Women are being welcomed into science fiction, but it's through the back door.

RSS, as a format and an idea, grew directly out of an internet culture that many people online today know nothing about: Usenet.

If you love epic space opera, you shouldn't miss 'Interstellar'.

When I was a policy analyst at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, I became obsessed with end user license agreements.

Reader was by far the most popular feed reader out there, and its user base had been in a steep decline for two years before Google decided to shut it down.

There can be problems with extended families, and it can get a little close for comfort. But for the younger generations, it's clear that this option is becoming almost as appealing as living alone.

If we lose bees, we may be looking at losing apples and oranges. We may be looking at losing a great deal of other crops, as well, and other animals that depend on those crops.

Publishers often push women in a subtle way to focus on fantasy and paranormal writing.

A group of scientists wanted to find the most effective mosquito repellents. So they tested 10 different substances, including campout standbys like DEET, as well as a random choice: Victoria's Secret perfume Bombshell. Turns out the perfume is almost as good as DEET.

A hard-hitting investigative report that uncovers a nugget of genuine truth is the ultimate viral hit.

We have converted huge swaths of land and ocean into human habitats where we live and grow food and harvest energy. But there's been a sea change in the past century.