

Asimov Press
Asimov Press
Audio recordings of Asimov Press essays and science fiction, focused on the science and technologies that promote a flourishing future.
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Aug 25, 2025 • 1h 1min
What We Find in the Sewers
Our ancestors once spread their excess effluent on their fields; now we mine it for vital molecules. By Calum Drysdale.Visit press.asimov.com to read all articles.

Aug 21, 2025 • 42min
Pausing Insect Activity
Seasonal dormancy features in the life cycle of many insects. We can harness it for biological control, insect farming, and disease vector management at scale. By Ulkar Aghayeva.Read every article from Asimov Press by visiting press.asimov.com.

Aug 18, 2025 • 10min
The Weight of a Cell
A single yeast cell weighs about one million times less than a grain of sand. But how do we know this? By Niko McCarty.Visit press.asimov.com to read all of our articles for free.

Aug 14, 2025 • 24min
Leeches and the Legitimizing of Folk-Medicine
While we’ve derived useful molecules from the leech, live leech therapy has been largely marginalized in the West. It is time we reevaluate why. By Khushi Mittal & Xander Balwit.Read every article by visiting press.asimov.com.

Aug 11, 2025 • 13min
The Flower Designer
A plant biologist’s quest to design and create 1,000 unique flowers, mostly in his spare time. By Niko McCarty.Read every article from Asimov Press by visiting press.asimov.com.

Aug 7, 2025 • 15min
The Sunlight Budget of Earth
Sunlight represents a seemingly endless source of largely untapped energy. Just how endless is it? Written by Sam Clamons.Visit press.asimov.com to read all of our articles.

Aug 4, 2025 • 18min
How to Scale Proteomics
A look inside Parallel Squared Technology Institute, a focused research organization trying to make analyzing a proteome as easy as DNA sequencing. By Niko McCarty.Read all of our articles by visiting press.asimov.com.

Jul 31, 2025 • 11min
Spinning Bacteria
By spinning bacteria in circles, scientists figured out how phage viruses time their escape from an infected cell. By Kamal Nahas.Visit press.asimov.com to read more articles about biology.

Jul 23, 2025 • 10min
Cable Bacteria are Living Batteries
How a discovery in a Danish lake changed our understanding of biological communities and energy. By Niko McCarty.Visit press.asimov.com to read more.

Jul 21, 2025 • 40min
What Makes a Mature Science
Mechanism alone cannot make a science credible. It must describe its subject matter in terms of entities, properties, and rules. By SLIME MOLD TIME MOLD.Read every article from Asimov Press, for free, at press.asimov.com.