Jason Dunn, co-founder and CTO of Made In Space, responds to “The Man Who Sold the Moon” on Singularity Hub.

Gizmag’s Eric Mack reports on Liftport, a Kickstarter-funded project to create an elevator connecting the Moon to the Earth.

In an article for Slate magazine’s Future Tense channel, Annalee Newitz argues that urban planners should read more science fiction.

Foursquare Data Scientist Michael Li talks probabilities, integers and Bayesian Smoothing.

Neal Stephenson and Cory Doctorow discuss the possibilities for moon dust.

A student research project about a method for sorting lunar regolith by size, produced at the University of Washington as part of NASA’s Microgravity University program and overseen by James J. Riley, professor of mechanical engineering.

Jean M. Andino, one of the co-authors of this article, consulted with Charlie Jane Anders on “The Day It All Ended.” Andino is a Senior Sustainability Scholar at Arizona State University’s Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability, and an Associate Professor at the School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy.

Read an excerpt of “By the Time We Get To Arizona” by Madeline Ashby.

The Atlantic‘s Alexis C. Madrigal explores Google X’s secret drone delivery program.

Human-Animal Studies (HAS) is a rapidly growing interdisciplinary field that examines the complex and multidimensional relationships between humans and other animals.