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The best American science and nature writing 2020 / edited and with an introduction by Michio Kaku ; Jaime Green, series editor

Boston : Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2020]

©2020

xxviii, 343 pages ; 21 cm

Dr. Michio Kaku, one of the most influential living scientists and a New York Times best-selling author, selects the year's top science and nature writing from writers who balance research with humanity and, in the process, uncover riveting stories of discovery across the disciplines.

The best American series, ISSN: 1530-1508

Best American series.

Science -- Literary collections.

Nature -- Literary collections.

Literature.

Essays.

Kaku, Michio, editor, writer of introduction.

Green, Jaime, editor.

Includes bibliographical references.

A journey into the animal mind (from The Atlantic) / Ross Andersen -- Sleep no more (from Wind) / 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 (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 Jarr -- 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

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