Issue 23: Tension

December, 2025

Cover Artist: Neus Torres Tamarit and Ben Murray


Editorial

Science lives in tension. The model never fits perfectly. The data never arrives clean. We stand at the edge of what we know, pulled between confidence and uncertainty. That pressure forces us to look again. It asks us to let go of easy answers about what we wish the world to be, rather embrace what it is…

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Editor’s Picks

i remember by Vasiliki Vita

Live Art by Anne Eyries

The Atmosphere in Movements by Kari Henry





Poems

Bubbles that kill by Kate Heaphy
ceiiinosssttuv by Martin Zarrop
Circus Syndrome by Chloe Bowman
Corners in America, 1968/2025 by Linda Vigen Phillips
Down Hammett Grove Way by Steven K. Mittwede
Dreaming Lights amidst the Amyloid Shadows by Vidisha Chadachan
i remember by Vasiliki Vita
Live Art by Anne Eyries
Marrowlight by R. Galichon


Questions of Cohesion by Marion Agnew
Reading Bashō by Shivpreet Singh
Surface Tension of Dew by Megan Day
The Atmosphere in Movements by Kari Henry
The Scientist-Poet Exchange by Avryn Firestone
The Upwards Curve by Fiona Theokritoff
Tidal Forces by Noah Bice
Unwound by Cristina Ghita
walking on a tree-lined street in fall by Sharisa Aidukaitis


Art Pieces with ConciliARTe

Silence That Hides Storms by Rashmi Patil
Surface Tension of Dew by Megan Day

Tail of the Tiger by Jane Elise Muir
Tension (Haploid Selection) by Neus Torres Tamarit and Ben Murray


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