PHYSICS TODAY MAGAZINE CELEBRATES ITS 50TH ANNIVERSARY this month with, among other features, winning entries from a contest which asked for a news report of an imagined research breakthrough of the future. The essays are as follows. (1) Gordon Kane (Michigan) reports, in the year 2011, on the discovery of particles at the Large Hadron Collider with masses of 950 and 1900 GeV, which theorists interpret as being evidence for two new spatial dimensions. (2) Paul Grant (Electric Power Research Institute) describes the development (in the year 2028) of a DNA- related polymer which remains superconducting above 600 K.(3) Jack Watrous (NumerEx, in Albuquerque, NM) describes an era (the year is 2048) when the government is concerned about the spreading power of robot technology based on recombinant DNA, programmable protein folding, and autonomous computing; rumors of sentient ribonucleic robot colonies has anti-cybernetic watchdogs worried. (Physics Today, May 1998.)