In this fascinating collection of writings that introduce the most recent theories and discoveries in research, editor Max Brockman presents the work of some of today’s brightest and most innovative young experts.

Future Science features eighteen young scientists, most of whom are presenting their function and suggestions to a general audience for the first time. One of them collection are

* William McEwan, a virologist, discussing his study into the biology of antiviral immunity about Future Science: Essays from the Cutting Edge

* Naomi Eisenberger, a neuroscientist, wondering how interpersonal rejection impacts us physically

* Jon Kleinberg, a pc scientist, teaching what massive datasets can teach us about culture and ourselves

* Anthony Aguirre, a physicist, who also gives readers a tantalizing glimpse of infinity

“Future Science shares with the world a delightful secret that we academics have already been keeping-that despite all the hysteria about how electronic mass media are dumbing down the next era, a tidal wave of talent has been flooding into science, making their elders feel like the dumb types . . It includes a prosperity of fresh and exciting ideas, and will help shake up our notions concerning this, sex, color, and subject clichés of the existing public belief of science.”

-Steven Pinker, writer of The Stuff of Thought