Winner of this year's science-fiction essay competition co-sponsored by Nature and EULIFE_news: Human/Nature
The winning essay by Katherine Ember fast-forwards to 2053 and outlines a typical day for one scientist at the fictional Institute of Merged Sciences in Edinburgh, UK. Ember completed her PhD in Edinburgh and is now a radiologist at the Montreal Polytechnic in Canada. Her scientific utopia is one in which scientists are obliged to assist their local community.Mornings like this are the reason I won’t be retiring any time soon.
Once I’ve entered the lift from the bike park, I select the fourteenth floor and click the biohazard symbol. This prevents anyone else from entering the lift at the same time as me, as I’m carrying a potentially dangerous sample and in a rush to get it analysed. Ever since the COVID-19 pandemic 30 years ago, I’ve been wary of cases like this, but the nurse assured me that the samples were safely contained.
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