Best American science and nature writing 2020 /
2020 the best American science and nature writing. Science and nature.
edited and with and introduction by Michio Kaku ; Jaime Green, series editor.
- Boston, Massachusetts : Mariner Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020.
- xxviii, 343 pages ; 21 cm.
- Best American series. .
A journey into the animal mind (from The Atlantic) / Sleep no more (from Wired) / What remains (from The California Sunday magazine) / With a simple twist, a "magic" material is now the big thing in physics (from Quanta Magazine) / The eighth continent (from The New Yorker) / The tumultuous history of a mysterious brain signal that questioned free will (from The Atlantic) / Younger longer (from The New Yorker) / Right under our noses (from Wired) / Beauty of the beasts (from The New York Times Magazine) / Ghosts of the future (from The Washington Post ) / Intelligent ways to search for extraterrestrials (from The New Yorker) / "We have fire everywhere" (from The New York Times Magazine) / Vaccines reimagined (from Scientific American) / New blood (from The New Yorker) / The day the dinosaurs died (from The New Yorker) / The final five percent (from Longreads) / The next word (from The New Yorker) / Troubled treasure (from Science Magazine) / The hidden heroines of chaos (from Quanta Magazine) / The hunt for planet nine (from Longreads) / A different kind of theory of everything (from The New Yorker) / The brain that remade itself (from OneZero) / Ross Andersen -- Kelly Clancy -- Daniel Duane -- David H. Freedman -- Rivka Galchen -- Bahar Gholipour -- Adam Gopnik -- Sara Harrison -- I, language robot (from Los Angeles Review of Books) / Patrick House -- Ferris Jabr -- Sarah Kaplan -- Adam Mann -- Total eclipse (from Aeon) / Deanna Csomo McCool -- Jon Mooallem -- Melinda Wenner Moyer -- Siddhartha Mukherjee -- Douglas Preston -- Tim Requarth -- John Seabrook -- Joshua Sokol -- Joshua Sokol -- Shannon Stirone -- Natalie Wolchover -- 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.