Soft Futures
Laura TripaldiA curated collection of materials science, synthetic organisms, and embodied technologies.
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In Praise Of Useless Robots
A few months ago, I visited the Futurism retrospective organized to mark the 80th anniversary of Filippo Tommaso Marinetti's death at the National Gallery in Rome. The rooms were filled with archives of an ultra-modernist machinic dream: po...
Powering Technology With Photosynthetic Microbes
Elysia chlorotica, a small sea snail that lives in shallow waters along the reefs of Atlantic coasts, can sustain itself for several months by drawing the energy it needs directly from sunlight. But, unlike a plant, it is not able to produc...
Brains in a Dish are the Future of Computing
I have no mouth and I must play Pong
Somewhere in a biotech laboratory in Australia, a small clump of human neurons is teeming with microscopic sparks of electricity. This mini-brain in a dish lacks any means of perception or action:...
2.2 Million New Materials Discovered with AI
In my days as a young chemistry student, now long gone, I learned that there were two ways of being a chemist. Some of us were destined to embody the archetype of the lab rat, wearing a white coat while working with fuming mixtures of dange...
Ecology of Snowflakes
While ice is ubiquitous in the cosmos, snow requires a complex set of conditions to appear. Many gaseous compounds like methane, carbon dioxide, and nitrogen are below their freezing point on other planets, but not any molecule can form a s...
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Writer, materials scientist, and researcher at the Center for AI and Culture of NYU Shanghai. Fascinated with how materials defy our expectations. Author of Parallel Minds. Discovering the Intelligence of Materials (Urbanomic, 2022).
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