Best American science and nature writing 2020 / edited and with and introduction by Michio Kaku ; Jaime Green, series editor.

A journey into the animal mind (from The Atlantic) / Ross Andersen -- Sleep no more (from Wired) / Kelly Clancy -- What remains (from The California Sunday magazine) / Daniel Duane -- With a simple twist, a "magic" material is now the big thing in physics (from Quanta Magazine) / David H. Freedman -- The eighth continent (from The New Yorker) / Rivka Galchen -- The tumultuous history of a mysterious brain signal that questioned free will (from The Atlantic) / Bahar Gholipour -- Younger longer (from The New Yorker) / Adam Gopnik -- Right under our noses (from Wired) / Sara Harrison -- I, language robot (from Los Angeles Review of Books) / Patrick House -- Beauty of the beasts (from The New York Times Magazine) / Ferris Jabr -- Ghosts of the future (from The Washington Post ) / Sarah Kaplan -- Intelligent ways to search for extraterrestrials (from The New Yorker) / Adam Mann -- Total eclipse (from Aeon) / Deanna Csomo McCool -- "We have fire everywhere" (from The New York Times Magazine) / Jon Mooallem -- Vaccines reimagined (from Scientific American) / Melinda Wenner Moyer -- New blood (from The New Yorker) / Siddhartha Mukherjee -- The day the dinosaurs died (from The New Yorker) / Douglas Preston -- The final five percent (from Longreads) / Tim Requarth -- The next word (from The New Yorker) / John Seabrook -- Troubled treasure (from Science Magazine) / Joshua Sokol -- The hidden heroines of chaos (from Quanta Magazine) / Joshua Sokol -- The hunt for planet nine (from Longreads) / Shannon Stirone -- A different kind of theory of everything (from The New Yorker) / Natalie Wolchover -- The brain that remade itself (from OneZero) / Andrew Zaleski.

A collection of the best science and nature writing published in North America in 2019, guest-edited by New York Times best-selling author and groundbreaking physicist Michio Kaku.